file with no name -- cannot be deleted

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

This one looks even easier. Just found it on ggogle. CD into yyy and type this:

find . -inum 4232799 -exec mv '{}' new-file-name \;

Then you should have a proper name for that directory.

On 11/6/06, rpowersau at gmail.com <rpowersau at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Can you cd into yyy?
>
> If so try this once in there to list whata files are in the directory:
>
> find . -inum 4232799 -exec ls {} \;
>
> Then you can create a link to the inode:
>
> find . -inum 4232799 -exec ln -s {} ./mylink \;
>
> and delete the files in the directory:
>
> rm -f ./mylink/*
>
> Then the directory should be empty and you can delete it?
>
> I hope?  ;)
>
>
> >
> > 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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> Russ
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Regards,
Russ