How to kill a dir? (fixed)

T. Ribbrock emgaron at gmx.net
Mon Jan 5 22:28:45 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:12:16PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
[fsck]
> It found errors and I then entered the password for root to get into
> maintainance mode and ran "fsck", this found illegal filenames to
> files that were not visable using any "ls" switches that I could
> find.. it then repaired the illegal filenames and then I was able to
> kill the directory..

I suggest you keep a close eye on this - if you didn't do anything
strange to those files yourself, this *could* be a sign of your
harddrive beginning to go bad...

Cheerio,

Thomas
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