file with no name -- cannot be deleted

[Barry]

I tried find with -inum -exec rm and received the error that the
directory was not empty.

It's a separate ext3 partition, so I unmounted it and ran fsck and am
told it's clean. Wouldn't that be equivalent to running off the live
cd?

Barry

On 11/6/06, ruscook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Could be a corrupted file system. You could try booting from the live
> cd, and running fsck on the file system (not what type it is and what
> dev/hdXX it's on before rebooting).
>
> Be prepared to wait a while. I had a file I could not delete on a 273GB
> reiserfs system and fsck took 2 hrs to repair (stupid me left the fix
> switch off and ended up having to run fsck twice!). This may not be a
> bad option if you want to see what the utility thinks is wrong before
> letting it touch the filesystem - just be prepared to wait!
>
> Russ
>
> Barry wrote:
> > I have an annoying situation. I had a directory with a large number of
> > files that I deleted with rm -rf, but one of the subdirectories was
> > left with a file with no name -- seems to be an empty string. It looks
> > like the inode for the directory and the inode for this file are one
> > in the same.
> >
> > First, I call ls -li on the parent directory and see this
> > $ ls -li
> > 4232799 drwxr-xr-x 2 user user    16384 2006-11-05 17:31 yyy
> >
> > So it looks like it has stuff in it, but there is no name to the file within:
> >
> > $ ls -li yyy
> > total 16
> > 4232799 drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 16384 2006-11-05 17:31
> >
> > Of course I get:
> > $ rm -rf yyy
> > rm: cannot remove directory `yyy': Directory not empty
> >
> > and,
> > $ rm yyy/*
> > rm: cannot remove `yyy/': Is a directory
> >
> > and
> > $ rmdir yyy/*
> > rmdir: yyy/: Directory not empty
> >
> > Different utilities say different things:
> >
> > $ du -sh
> > du: cannot access `yyy/': No such file or directory
> > 16K     yyy
> >
> > Can anyone suggest what might have happened and how can I delete this.
> >
> > Tia
> >
> >
>
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