Okay, I took the hammer to the folder and removed it. 1. I tried to stop the ntfs mount under Knoppix, not successful, so I did an init 6 command to stop Knoppix
2. I then yanked the hard-drive off the computer and mounted it on my Windows XP system. 3. I then successfully remove the 2 folders. 4. I then could NOT remove the USB mounted drive, so I had to kill Windows XP 5. After Windows XP came down, I yanked the hard drive off the system 6. I remounted the hard drive under Knoppix again. 7. I am currently doing a vfat partition to ntfs partition backup under Knoppix I honestly think that I had a file that should be used to troubleshoot a bug in the mount.ntfs thread under linux. Apparently I had a file or directory that the linux OS cannot handle Sigh.. this has consumed some time, and forced me to reboot 2 systems to successfully remove that pesky file. Anyways, problem solved. On 9/10/10, website reader <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's the result of the "stat filename" command - > > r...@microknoppix:/media/sdc2/Windows-98/windows# stat SendTo > File: `SendTo' > Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory > Device: 822h/2082d Inode: 155231 Links: 1 > Access: (0777/drwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) > Access: 2010-09-11 05:34:46.000000000 +0000 > Modify: 2010-09-11 05:34:33.000000000 +0000 > Change: 2010-09-11 05:34:33.000000000 +0000 > r...@microknoppix:/media/sdc2/Windows-98/windows# > > I still cannot remove this folder from the NTFS partition. > > I am trying to carefully archive data from a corrupted system and > running under Knoppix 6.01 CD so I can safely do this. > > > > On 9/10/10, website reader <[email protected]> wrote: >> Sorry for misleading the general reader, I DO understand that "." and >> ".." are in the file structure. >> >> There IS some type of hidden file in the folder. >> >> I tried using the "stat filename" command to locate the inode and then >> use the "find . -inum inode# -exec rm -i -d -r * \;" command but it >> still won't delete the folder. >> >> Is there any lower level command that can actually go in and remove that >> inode? >> >> >> >> On 9/10/10, Ron Braithwaite <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sep 10, 2010, at 10:54 PM, website reader wrote: >>> >>>> I am unable to delete two files on a hard-drive that originally was in >>>> a ntfs partition. >>>> The files are named "." and ".." >>>> >>>> Trying to use the rm -r -f command fails as does the rmdir command. I >>>> tried renaming them but that fails too. >>>> >>>> I really need to remove these two files, how can I tell the linux OS >>>> that they are not being used as a folder relocation command and >>>> actually remove them? >>> >>> Well, the reason you can't remove them is that "." is your current >>> directory >>> and ".." is the parent directory. >>> >>> May I suggest reading: >>> >>> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/understanding-unixlinux-file-system-part-i.html >>> >>> -Ron >>> _______________________________________________ >>> PLUG mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >>> >> > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
