On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 04:58:57PM +0200, Dmitry Fink (aka FINiK) wrote:
> I got a next entry in my /var/log directory:
> drwxr--r-- 2 nobody nobody 10975232 Sep 13 08:09 junkbuster
>
> It is obvious that the entry is corrupted, since no self-respecting
> directory wouldn't be 10M sized, but a 1024 entry instead. Now, I don't
> care about the 10M or why doesn't fsck fix this problem, the main problem
> is, that
> updatedb and logrotate fail on this directory since they
> can't read the contents. I need to remove the entry, but...
> (and here goes the catch) without unmounting the partition.
> I tried ext2ed, but I don't see the way to do it there,
> if anyone knows any way to complete the task, you are welcome to try....
man rm, check out the -d flag.
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