[PLUG] Unfindable File

Carlos Konstanski ckonstanski at pippiandcarlos.com
Mon Oct 25 21:55:43 UTC 2010


On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> To: plug at pdxlinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] Unfindable File
>
>   This may have something to do with those orphan files I am dealing with,
> since it's come up only since those files appeared.
>
>   Whenever I run 'find / -name ...' the last line returned is,
>
> find: Warning: file `ask.c' appears to have mode 0000
>
>   I cannot find any file named ask.c and I suspect that mode 0000 makes it
> (virtually?) impossible to do so.
>
>   I've not yet partitioned, formatted, and copied files from the two
> existing drives to the new 500G/7200rpm WD Caviar Black, so this may
> disappear when I do that and not copy the one directory on the old 80G hdb
> that has the orphaned files.
>
>   Has anyone knowledge of what that warning means and why it appears?
>
> Rich

I wonder if "find / -exec stat {} \;" would find the file?

Carlos



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