On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:54:20 -0700, Marc wrote in message <74553f6b-2616-70e1-e742-1ce9275b3...@gmail.com>:
> On 3/15/21 6:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:28:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng > > wrote: > >> On 3/14/21 10:09 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote: > >>> I assume you read the man page of fsck, as it's return code is > >>> what you want to pay attention to. > >>> > >>> As for lsof, the correct parameters would be `lsof +aL1 /dev/sdx. > >>> It should have thrown an error were you to use `lsof -L1`. If > >>> lsof returns nothing, your drive is most likely corrupted. > >> You are correct. I used '+L' NOT '-L'. > >>> It may also be possible that the files you removed have other > >>> references on your file system, aka. hard links. To find them, you > >>> would need to know the inode number, either by using `stat` or > >>> `ls -i`. You can then find them using `find -inum`. > >>> > >>> Since you already removed the files, you most likely can't know > >>> the inode number. However you could throw a `find $path -size > >>> n[cwbkMG]` to list the files with the matching size. > >> I'm not following you on this. What is this going to do for me? > >> 'find' is only going to show undeleted files. How does this > >> help? > > It is possible for a single file to be hard-linked in several > > places in the file system. If so, removing it in one place will > > still leave it accessible from another, and therefore not deleted. > > > > Files have reference counts to keep track of this. > > These files should not have any links, hard or soft. None of the > other files in that directory show a reference count above 1. They > are backup files created by fsarchiver. I'm just trying to free up > space by deleting files from January. ..any chance they have white-space-character-only names? E.g. " ", " ", " " etc, or Norwegian æ, ø, å, or some invisible non-Latin alphabet soup not supported by your fonts nor locales? You should still be able to cut-n-paste those and have them show up as high-lighted boxes. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng