El lun, 29-09-2003 a las 15:24, Ronald J. Hall escribió: > On Monday 29 September 2003 01:59 pm, me wrote: > > > Thank you for the suggestion. > > Jack > > Hi. I don't think I can offer a solution for your "undeletable file" but I > sure can sympathise. I have/had the same problem, only its a directory. > > I'm using reiserfs everywhere. I had Kmail crash once, and since then, I've > not been able to use /home/darklord/Mail. I tried deleting it, it caused the > system to reboot. I tried deleting it as root, it caused the system to > reboot. Running "updatedb" caused the system to reboot. Anocron/cron running > (and I'm assuming thus updating the DB) caused it to reboot. I tried using a > rescue disk and mounting the partition then deleting it, caused the system to > reboot. I tried deleting the inodes - operation not permitted. I tried > dropping to and/or booting into single user mode and deleting it - caused the > system to reboot. > > So here is what I finally did: > > I was able (go figure!!!) to "mv Mail .Mail-old". Then, I set the > slocate/updatedb conf file to ignore my /home/darklord stuff. > I turned Anacron off, and run the "updatedb" command when ever it reminds me > that more than 8 days have passed. I reran Kmail and it setup a new Mail > directory in /home/darklord and its been fine since. > > Fortunately for me, I've got an 80 gig hard drive, so the space taken by > .Mail-old doesn't hurt. > > I've been waiting to install v9.2 so I format/partition/frag everything on my > hard drive, and send .Mail-old to Hell <grin>. I've already backed up > everything pertinent. > > Good luck.
WAIT!! this gives me an idea.. :oP since you could move the file.. how about mv .Mail-old /dev/null ?? Same for you Jack, try `mv chrome /dev/null` ... /dev/null being in a different partition, i doubt it will actually work, but what the hell.. HTH Damian
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