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Dear all
I am facing a basic problem in RHEL 5.2. Some of files in a mounted showing ? in place of owner and group owner.
root# find /data/abc -nouser
listing those files.
How to delete those files because
root# find /data/abc -nouser -exec rm -rf {} \;
showing error access is denied
Thanks for reply
No, partition is mounted in read/write mode. But some files showing ? in place of inode, owner and group owner. Trying to delete those files gives access denied message.
thanks for respone
ls -n also showing ? in place of uid and gid. fsck may solve problem but i can't unmount it at this time. Is there any alternate way without applying fsck?
I am also investigating reason for such problem in ext3 file system. It would be great help if someone point me in right direction.
thanks for respone
ls -n also showing ? in place of uid and gid. fsck may solve problem but i can't unmount it at this time. Is there any alternate way without applying fsck?
I am also investigating reason for such problem in ext3 file system. It would be great help if someone point me in right direction.
Have you tried changing the owner to root? Can you change the permissions at all with "chmod"?
Since "ls" tries to find the owner and group in the files "/etc/passwd" and "/etc/group" it might show a ? when it can't find the ID number in the files. I thought that it just displayed the number instead. I'm assuming permission problems (lack of read access) for "/etc/passwd" and "/etc/group" would affect the listing of all files and not just some files.
I recommend doing "fsck" soon because a file system problem won't get better by itself, and might get worse. It's better to be sure as soon as possible and avoid losing other more important files.
Thanks for advice, i will do fsck and report you accordingly. At the same time i removed the folder that hold those files (since all those files was in one folder only), Now there are no such files in my system. So does fsck require immediately ?
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