Carey Evans said > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Well it's just gone from a weird, bothersome pain to a real problem. > > I was upgrading some packages when I got some familiar error messages about > > some file operations - "operation not allowed" or whatever... [...] > > So someone ***PLEASE*** tell me how I can force these files to go away. > > To get rid of the errors I got, I booted from the rescue disk and used > debugfs to manually "rm" the directory entries, then ran fsck again to
It worked!! Used debugfs (after coping a few binaries to my root partition, and dropping down to single user mode) to remove the files. Worked great! Debugfs is a very nice tool. Easy to use. > clean up the resulting mess. If you don't have the backups that would > let you reformat and restore, you should start making them or you'll > regret it as much as I did when my drive went belly-up a year ago. I *do* do backups. I learned that lesson a long while ago. However. This partition was /usr and I don't back it up nearly as often as some others - *everything* in /usr is from a Debian package. Reinstall the packages and the files are back. If something bombs-out, I'll know. (BTW, I did take note of *most* of the files that fcsk found the first time around...those pacakages were re-installed first thing.) > (Great Christmas present, that.) > Just when we're the busiest...bam, more headaches... > Note that each of the bad files in lost+found is one (possibly > essential) one that has disappeared from where it was supposed to be. > Again, it's easy to sovle issues in /usr - at least for us who run Debian. > -- > Carey Evans http://home.clear.net.nz/pages/c.evans/ > > Microsoft is the answer! The question is, "Why did my PC crash?" Thanks for the help!! I'm glad to get those files gone. Chuck -- Chuck Stickelman, Owner E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Practical Network Design Voice: +1-419-529-3841 9 Chambers Road FAX: +1-419-529-3625 Mansfield, OH 44906-1301 USA
