ok - i wonder whats causing these "broken" files ? <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:45 PM, <<a href="mailto:santi@usansolo.net">santi@usansolo.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dear Srs, I need to remove some broken files/inodes in ext3 filesystem running Linux 2.6.18, I can't delete using userspace utilitys: # ls -l /tmp/apspkgarc/ total 0 ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? AdvancedPoll-2.03-30.app.zip ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Coppermine-1.3.3-45.app.zip ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? joomla-1.0.12-36.app.zip ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? Mambo-4.6.2-8.app.zip ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? osCommerce-2.2ms2-52.app.zip ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? phpBB-2.0.22-19.app.zip ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? phpBook-1.50-26.app.zip ?--------- ? ? ? ? ? WordPress-2.0-21.app.zip # rm -rf /tmp/apspkgarc rm: cannot remove directory `/tmp/apspkgarc': Directory not empty Other times I have solved this problem using debugfs, but I don't know if it's a secure method to make this: # umount /dev/i2o/hda4 # debugfs -w /dev/i2o/hda4 debugfs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) debugfs: freei /var/run/named.pid "freei" is a secure method to delete those files? Also, I'm looking for a method or application to search this type of broken files, now I'am using this shell one-liners: export LANG=en_US find / -type s -prune 2> /tmp/find_broken_files.txt > /dev/null awk '/No such file or directory/ { print $2; }' /tmp/find_broken_files.txt All advices are welcome, thanks!! Regards, -- Santi Saez _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Ext3-users@redhat.com">Ext3-users@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users</a> </blockquote></div>