Re: Corrupt file??

Les Klassen Hamm wrote:

> A directory listing shows the following snippet (a line above and below
> included for context):
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 leskh leskh 108 2008-06-20 14:55 .gtk-bookmarks
> d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs
> -rw------- 1 leskh leskh 519 2008-06-24 16:20 .ICEauthority
>
> Can anyone tell me something about that? This is on a fresh install of
> Ubuntu 8.04
> It doesn't seem to be doing any damage, except for the error message
> during backup, but it looks wrong, even potentially troublesome.

I'd be suspicious of a corrupt file/inode/directory. Is there an fsck
for the filesystem, or some other way to validate/fix it?

If you wanted to get really hardcore you could read the raw inodes on
disk and parse it manually...

Chris
Received on Wed Jun 25 00:26:32 2008