On Apr 02, 2008 17:03 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Let's see what we have there - four files with exactly the same name and > inode: > > # ls -li > total 16 > 73793642 -rw-r----- 179 backuppc backuppc 46 May 14 2007 attrib > 73793642 -rw-r----- 179 backuppc backuppc 46 May 14 2007 attrib > 73793642 -rw-r----- 179 backuppc backuppc 46 May 14 2007 attrib > 73793642 -rw-r----- 179 backuppc backuppc 46 May 14 2007 attrib > > > Let's remove "attrib" file: > > # rm -f attrib > > Ouch: > > # ls > ls: attrib: No such file or directory > ls: attrib: No such file or directory > ls: attrib: No such file or directory > > When I want to browse the directory i.e. in midnight commander (mc), it > shows me three files in red called "?attrib", dated 1 Jan 1970. Looks like it has unprinting characters. Try find . -print0 | xargs -0 rm > e2fsck comes from e2fsprogs 1.39 - should I try something newer? It is usually best to use the latest version. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html