what to do after crash?

[Liloulinx]

akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:55:04AM +0200, L A wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>My computer has crashed last day. Now I can't open the
>>file in wich I was working. I can't also open
>>thunderbird. It told me that my profile is already
>>open. (in other distributions we need juste to make
>>empty a file namefile.lock, in fedora ???).
>>I can't also rename or delete the directory which
>>contain the concerned file.
>>
>>I know that it's impossible to rescue the damaged file
>>but tell me please what must I do to rename the
>>directory which contain it and to be able to use
>>thunderbird.
>>Thank you very much.
>>PS: I'm using FC3
>>    
>>
>As root you should be able to run: rm -r <directory name>
>to remove the directory. 
>If for some reason the permissions on the directory are too
>restrictive for removal you can change the permissions using the chmod
>command and then do the : rm -r
>  
>
Even as root it doesn't accept to remove it. This is to to the crash. I
think that the system has marked it as occupied (opened). I have
resolved this problem by using Windows. Excuse me ...  (am an old newbee
of Linux)

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