How to kill a dir?

[Kwan Lowe]

> find: ./??*?: No such file or directory
> [root at dev02 i386]# ls
> ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
> test
>
>
> Guess I will just have to abandon that directory tree until I rebuild
> the system one day..


It sounds more like filesystem corruption than just a bad dir. Try umounting
the partition (or booting from a rescue disk) then fsck the partition. I've
seen this happen with ReiserFS a few times.





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