[lug] cruft from an fsck'ed partition

[Hugh Brown]

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

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

$ 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

Any ideas?

Hugh