Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 02 Nov 1999 19:37:48 +1300 | From | Michael Clark <> | Subject | Re: Removing bad fsck inode files |
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Tom Livingston wrote: > > Michael Clark: > > The corruption has probably set the immutable flag on these files. > > > > Have you tried: chattr -i *
Must be a bug in the ioctl chattr uses - it can't read flags on special files.
i.e.
mknod test c 0 0 chattr +i test chattr: Operation not supported by device while reading flags on a
> Thanks for the advice! This did clear some, but unfortunately not many. > With my test group of #1* I was able to delete 16 of the 4171... but of > course that still leaves 4155 files. This is the output I got from > chattr -i \#1*: > > chattr: Invalid argument while reading flags on #1118037 > chattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device while reading flags on #1118068 > chattr: No such device while reading flags on #1118105 > chattr: No such device while reading flags on #1118128 > chattr: No such device while reading flags on #1118148 > chattr: No such device while reading flags on #1118176 > > I guess all of my trouble are because they are all invalid devices & pipes. > is there no way to clear these types of invalid devices? > > tom
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