file with no name -- cannot be deleted

Eamonn Sullivan eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com
Mon Nov 6 11:07:37 UTC 2006


On 11/6/06, Barry <barrynyc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, that's the same as running from the live CD. Silly question, but
did you try ls -a? The 'a' option shows files that begin with a dot. I
didn't see that among the things you tried.

-Eamonn




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