removing weired file from ext3 filesystem

[Michael R. Head]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:07 +0100, Sven Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i have a big problem here.
> 
> I have a backup hard drive with an ext3 partition.
> One of my friends made a backup on it with some gentoo portage
> things.
> 
> Now that he is gone i wanted to delete the 4 files which are taking
> 8GB away but i am not allowed to do so.
> 
> And it is really weired.

> 
> Any ideas what else i could do despite reformatting the partition?

Do a "sudo touch /forcefsck" and reboot. This will cause a filesystem
check to run on the next boot. Try removing the files again after it's
done.

> 
> Greetings
> Sven
> 
-- 
Michael R. Head <burner at suppressingfire.org>
http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~burner/new/resume.html
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