Re: Wrong file size, is it dangerous?
Taral (taral@cyberjunkie.com)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:52:15 -0600
On Mon, 08 Mar 1999, Michael K Vance wrote:
>Ricardo Galli Granada wrote:
>
>> 1. Can I delete it safely? (I am scared to do it, I even trying to avoid a
>> reboot...)
>
>Most likely, you won't be able to. This sort of thing happened to me once, and
>I had to boot from a rescue disk and use debugfs to remove the files.
>
>> 2. How can I see what's wrong in the file? I tried to do lseek and I am
>> getting errors. How can I send you more useful information?
>
>Debugfs will print a bunch of info about what exactly was wrong with the
>file--I'm not sure if it will be useful or not.
Actually, you should fsck the disk that the file resides on. You shouldn't
_ever_ need to debugfs an ext2 filesystem to remove a damaged file -- fsck
should be able to fix it for you. Note that you may need to run fsck manually,
since it may have to delete data from the disk.
Taral
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