[lug] cruft from an fsck'ed partition

[D. Stimits]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> Let me add more detail.  On fileserver I have a partition that is mounted
> on /home it has an appropriate lost+found directory.  Once a week, I do a
> backup of fileserver:/home to backupserver:/backups/fileserver/home
> 
> On backupserver I have a large partition that is mounted at /backups
> 
> I do the backup by doing a tar cf - /home  | (cd /backups/fileserver; tar
> xf -)   all over an ssh session.
> 
> I was looking at the backup (a user typed rm * in her home directory, oops)
> and noticed  the block file where a directory should have been.
> 
> I tried to delete it and got all of what I noted below.
> 
> I think it ended up that way as a result of fsck trying to fix things after
> a system crash.
> 
> How can I remove the block special file?

You probably need to do an rm -Rf (forced recursive, rather than just
rm) in case there is anything in the directory. If that fails, find out
what is making it "busy", via "fuser", and kill whatever is holding it.
Then try delete again.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> Hugh
> 
> "D. Stimits"
> >
> > Hugh Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > I have been doing a tar over ssh backup of a filesystem to a disk.  Too
> > > often it dies and complains about a corrupted MAC on input.  Too many times
> > > I have had to go through lengthy fsck's the next time it comes up.
> > >
> > > Today on that disk I found a copy of the lost+found folder from the
> > > original system but it was magically a block special device instead of a
> > > regular folder.
> > >
> > > br-xr---wx    2 26723    19443     69,  49 Sep 20  2005 lost+found
> >
> > Definitely it should be a directory.
> >
> > >
> > > Here's what I have tried while su -'ed to root:
> > >
> > > $ rm lost\+found
> > > rm: remove `lost+found'? y
> > > rm: cannot unlink `lost+found': Operation not permitted
> >
> > I think removing lost+found might be a bad idea anyway. You should try
> > the command "mklost+found" (see man page).
> >
> > >
> > > $ chown root lost+found
> > > chown: lost+found: Operation not permitted
> > >
> > > $ lsattr lost+found
> > > lsattr: No such device While reading flags on lost+found
> > >
> > > $ mv lost+found /tmp
> > > mv: cannot unlink `lost+found': Operation not permitted
> > > mv: cannot remove `lost+found': Operation not permitted
> > >
> > > I was able to remove the copy in /tmp though
> > >
> > > I tried adding a user with uid 26723 and then repeated the same commands
> > > and got nowhere.  In /var/log/messages I have
> > >
> > > Jun 21 15:38:09 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-69
> >
> > This appears to be scsi devices starting with "sdc", owner root, group
> > disk. Check out /dev/MAKEDEV for recreation.
> >
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