Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > > On 3/15/21 6:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:28:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: >>> On 3/14/21 10:09 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote: >>>> I assume you read the man page of fsck, as it's return code is what you >>>> want to pay attention to. >>>> >>>> As for lsof, the correct parameters would be `lsof +aL1 /dev/sdx. It >>>> should have thrown an error were you to use `lsof -L1`. If lsof returns >>>> nothing, your drive is most likely corrupted. >>> You are correct. I used '+L' NOT '-L'. >>>> It may also be possible that the files you removed have other >>>> references on your file system, aka. hard links. To find them, you >>>> would need to know the inode number, either by using `stat` or `ls -i`. >>>> You can then find them using `find -inum`. >>>> >>>> Since you already removed the files, you most likely can't know the >>>> inode number. However you could throw a `find $path -size n[cwbkMG]` to >>>> list the files with the matching size. >>> I'm not following you on this. What is this going to do for me? >>> 'find' is >>> only going to show undeleted files. How does this help? >> It is possible for a single file to be hard-linked in several places >> in the >> file system. If so, removing it in one place will still leave it >> accessible >> from another, and therefore not deleted. >> >> Files have reference counts to keep track of this. > > These files should not have any links, hard or soft. None of the other > files in that directory show a reference count above 1. They are backup > files created by fsarchiver. I'm just trying to free up space by > deleting files from January. > > Marc >
To find files last modified in January: (adjust the dates as needed; on Mar. 19 this should locate files dated Jan 1 - 31 but it could be off a day or so) cd /media/archives find -type f -mtime -78 -mtime +46 -ls > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
