On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:04:55 +0200, Jochen wrote in message <20120502050455.ga25...@well-adjusted.de>:
> Dennis Wicks: > > Greetings; > > > > I have a file that looks like the following in an ls list; > > > > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? Inbox.msf > > > > I can't do anything with it. Can't mv, rm, cp, or anything else I > > have thought of to get rid of it or write over it. > > > > Any ideas how I can get this thing out of my life?? > > Fsck the filesystem. ..first, umount it right _now!_ ..if Inbox.msf is your email, you will now learn why, how etc back-ups are nice. And you _may_ want to learn how to retrieve bad data tha's been removed by fsck to save the file system. ..depending on how valuable your data is, be careful, "fsck \ -N /dev/bad.disk.part" is a safe start if you're in a hurry, it makes you slow down and verify you understood "man fsck". -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120502152543.594a3...@celsius.lan
