Re: ghost files

[Marc Schmitt <mschmitt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had a similar problem with 3 files on ext3 today. What worked for me 
was to copy any intact files out of the folder to another partition, `rm 
-rf` the folder (in your case xap) and then recreate the folder and copy 
the intact files back. The deletion brought up some kernel warnings:
EXT3-fs warning (device sd(8,113)): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent 
file (1868346), 0
EXT3-fs warning (device sd(8,113)): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent 
file (1868345), 0
EXT3-fs warning (device sd(8,113)): ext3_unlink: Deleting nonexistent 
file (1868347), 0

But it worked. Finally I did restore the buggy files from tape, they 
were backed up sucessfuly two months ago or so.

I'm not sure if it will work on XFS but might be worth a try.

   Marc

James Rich wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I have a strange thing happening.  My rsync mirror of slackware.com has
> "ghost files" in it, i.e. files that don't exist yet most file operations
> still find them.  Here is an example using 'ls':
>
> root@universe:/home/ftp/pub/slackware-current/slackware/xap# ls
> /bin/ls: mozilla-1.4.1-i486-1.tgz: No such file or directory
> /bin/ls: mozilla-1.4.1-i486-1.tgz.asc: No such file or directory
> /bin/ls: mozilla-1.4.1-i486-1.txt: No such file or directory
> /bin/ls: gimp-1.3.23-i486-1.txt: No such file or directory
> /bin/ls: mozilla-plugins-1.4.1-noarch-1.tgz: No such file or directory
> /bin/ls: mozilla-plugins-1.4.1-noarch-1.tgz.asc: No such file or directory
> /bin/ls: mozilla-plugins-1.4.1-noarch-1.txt: No such file or directory
>
> Notice 'ls' "sees" these files, but they don't actually exist.  I don't
> know how to delete what doesn't exist, but I would like to get ls to quit
> reporting these files (ls isn't the only command, chown does the same
> thing).  What should I do?
>
> James Rich
>
>
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