Re: non removable files

Andreas Schwab (schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de)
14 May 1999 11:13:41 +0200


"Paolo Galtieri" <peg@caffeine.phx.mcd.mot.com> writes:

|> Recently I had some disk corruption on my IDE drive. What caused the
|> corruption I don't know, but the result of it was that several files
|> were turned into device special files, e.g.
|>
|> pr-SrwS-wT 1 1024 13879 0 Mar 10 2028 if_yfgreg.h
|> cr---w---- 1 26720 8192 109, 116 Oct 25 2008 pre-patch-2.2.5-1
|>
|> there are several others. The problem is that I cannot remove them, or
|> do just about anything else to them even as root.

Use debugfs(8).

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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