Another possibility - if you have Midnight Commander installed, (or can install it) mc shows files visually - you can just highlight the file and hit F8 to delete (very similar to Norton Commander for DOS). I normally install mc just for little problems like this. HTH A. Becker Jason Lyons <BiptoN@charter.net> wrote: > It has come down to having to deleting it from debugfs, could someone let me > in on how to delete a particular inode from the disk this way. > > On Tuesday 03 December 2002 4:36 pm, you wrote: > > Not an ext3 issue, so I'm replying off-list... > > > > If you haven't tracked down the problem yet, there are several ways to > > delete misnamed files. > > > > Drop to console, and do 'rm -i *', this will prompt you before deleting. > > Just say Y to the one you want to delete. If there are too many, maybe 'rm > > -i *hxc*', which will narrow down the list for you. > > > > If all else fails, you can always do 'ls -ai', note the inode number of the > > file, and delete it from debugfs, but it should never come to that. > > > > At 03:25 PM 12/3/2002 -0800, you wrote: > > >Hey there I recently downloaded a folder off an ftp that had [hxc] as the > > >bwginning name of thr dir, now it says it's locked when I try to delete it > > > in KDE. when I try to rm -f in a console it says it doesn't exist, I > > > can't move it, delete it , or change anything about it. When I output a > > > ls -la to a txt it says this about it "drwxr-xr-x 2 root root > > > 4096 Dec 2 10:18 [hXc] Falling Cycle - > > >2002 - Conflict" and when I just pull a ls -la in the console it shows up > > > with "?[hxc]? blah blah blah" the question marks, I don't get it. Could > > > someone lemme know how dumb I am I would appreciate it, as long as you > > > tell me how to get rid of it to ;) Thanks everyone. > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > >Ext3-users@redhat.com > > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
