On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:37:35 +0100, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a ntfs partition which I mount with ntfs-3g and fuse. Some months > ago > I had split a video file which thereafter bzipped: > > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00001xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00002xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00003xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00004xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00005xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00006xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00007xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00008xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00009xaa.bz2 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00010xaa.bz2 > > The ??? above show me that something is amiss and the files have been > corrupted. I recall deleting them (or trying to) from within MSWindows, > but > I couldn't do that and, of course, blamed MSWindows for it. > > Now I am looking at this having booted into Gentoo and I cannot delete > them: > ===================================== > /mnt/VideoDrive $ rm rec00001xaa.bz2 > > rm: cannot remove `rec00001xaa.bz2': No such file or directory > ===================================== > > shred does not work either: > ===================================== > $ shred -v -z -u rec00001xaa.bz2 > shred: rec00001xaa.bz2: failed to open for writing: No such file or > directory > ===================================== > > This is how it has been mounted: > > $ mount | grep Video > /dev/sda9 on /mnt/VideoDrive type fuseblk > (rw,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096) > > Is there an application I could use to remove them and free the space on > the > disk, or should I run chkdisk or fsck first? I cannot afford to lose the
> remaining data on the disk and I do not have another disk as large to back > up > first. I think that you have to boot into windows and try to run chkdsk to repair the filesystem. HTH. Xav'
