[PLUG] How To Remove "Ghost" Files?

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Fri Oct 8 13:50:55 UTC 2010


   This morning's report on the dirvish backup reported errors of files being
removed before they could be backed up. This in a directory that I've not
accessed for several years so nothing should have changed any files there.
As a matter of fact, I've done nothing in that partition recently.

   Anyway, I cannot remove this spurious files as they have no information
associated with them when displayed. Here's an example:

?????????? ? ?        ?          ?                ? xdbctl_8h-source.htm

   While I'd like to understand how these files became corrupted, I don't
need them so the more important question is how to delete them.

   I've tried, as root, putting the file name in double quotes but the system
tells me the file does not exist.

   Your thoughts and suggestions on how to clean this up are wanted.

TIA,

Rich



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