Failures they e2fsck doesn't find

[_evil]

Joerg Sommer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've run many time e2fsck, but in a special dir ls tells me:
> ls: rücksendung-wlan.dvi: No such file or directory
> ls: bafög_rückmeldung.latex: No such file or directory
> ls: finprüf.pdf: No such file or directory

fsck doesn't complain and what you see here are most likely some weird 
charset issues.

> $ cat finprüf.pdf 
> cat: finprüf.pdf: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

you're tools can't handle umlauts and thus fails to do anything with 
files containing umlauts. i'm not good [1] at charset issues either, but 
in debian the packages "locales" and "util-linux-locales" seems to be 
responsible for all that stuff.

Christian.

[1] an ugly putty session...
evil at sheep:~$ touch ümläute.txt
evil at sheep:~$ ls ümläute.txt
??ml??ute.txt