Re: Removing bogus files -- HELP!

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 10:53:56PM -0700, eric raeburn wrote:
> Does anyone know how to remove apparently corrupted files entries?
> I've got hundreds of files in /lost+found with bogus inodes, for
> example:
> 
> br--r--r--   1 62334    16197    237,  37 May  6  1995 #526307
> s-wx-----x   1 65257    255      2530964044 Oct  6  1916 #526309
> prwsrwxrw-   1 51879    13066           0 Apr 21  1939 #526318
> srwsr--r-x   1 58596    10074    3732091634 May 28  1961 #526323
> p-w---Srwt   1 44798    2118            0 Sep  3  2024 #526326
> 
> I think these were created after my *gak* Windows 98 partition did
> something horrible.  Or maybe fsck was trying to recover from
> whatever Win98 did.
> 
> In any event, rm, chmod, unlink(2) all give "operation not permitted",
> even though I'm root.

chattr -ai *

then try again.

Cheers,
 Stephen