file system messed up, help!

eaglegst · 08-22-2005, 02:15 AM

I am using Sarge and recently, I found most of my folders are messed up with foo.cmeta, foo.ibex.index, foo.ibex.index.data files, where foo is the name of each normal file in the folder.They were created by something I have no knowledge of and all at the same time.

What could possibly cause this? Is it serious? What are these files for? Can I safely delete them? How would I stop getting these in future if they are confirmed useless?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

eaglegst · 08-22-2005, 02:19 AM

forgot to mention, the problem only exists in my $HOME

rednuht · 08-31-2005, 04:27 PM

they sound like mail box data files, create a temp directory and move them all in there reboot, if everything works fine delete them else copy them back.
What mail services are you running?
what does a ls -al give you (users/permissions)?

eaglegst · 08-31-2005, 07:14 PM

Thanks a lot. I will give it a try.
I am running xmail server.
I wanted to check out its pop3 feature but never had time =P