Hi!

After having to make a complete backup of my drive (as it acts funny
lately and will soon go bang, I fear, BTW, an IBM IDE drive less than
2 years old... :-( ) by using InfoZIP in OS/2, I came upon a problem
with my JFS drive there. Zip uses up all resources of some kind and
can't backup the drive. In narrowed this down to a single file in one
directory. It seems to consist of '?' and possibly other
characters. The directory cannot be listed in OS/2 at all.

Now, being smart (I thought) why not use Linux JFS to delete that file
and run fsck on the drive to make sure everything is sane.

Linux JFS utils (1.0.11) did repair some minor problems and some cross
links, but going into the problematic dir and trying to delete said
file was not successful. I tried an rm -rf from higher up, but the
command fails on that one file. If I try to list it with ls -l I just
get an error saying that the file cannot be listed.

Next, I will try an upgrade to 1.0.16, but I thought I'l ask around if
this is a known issue and still persists or if anyone has a solution
for me to get rid of this whole directory. I wouldn't mind deleting
the whole tree from / on, but I can't afford to lose the whole
partition let alone the whole drive right now.

Thanks for any help
Jocki

PS: I do have backups of important data, but I would hate to have to
install the zillions of small utilities and programs again that have
accumulated over the last 5 years there on my OS/2 partition.
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