[clue-tech] I/O Error when attempting to remove an empty (corrupt?) directory

[Angelo Bertolli]

William wrote:

> List,
>
> I am unable to destroy a broken directory on my file system 
> (RHEL/CentOS4).  The following is a screen capture of the problem at 
> work:
>
> [root at kenshin ~]# cd /mnt/broken
> [root at kenshin broken]# dir
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Feb  7 14:42 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Feb  9 09:59 ..
> ?---------  ? ?    ?       ?            ? dnszones
> [root at kenshin broken]# rm -rf dnszones
> rm: cannot lstat `dnszones': Input/output error
>
> I broke this directory when I attempted to mount it to a samba share 
> on another (Windows NT 4) machine.  While the logon I used should have 
> worked, it did not and I am unable to recover.
>
> I have tried stopping smb before issuing the rm -- no change.  I have 
> tried remounting the share (with smb running) to no avail.  At this 
> point, I just want this broken directory off my HDD.
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks! 

I don't really know much about this--I didn't even know you could have 
such a case.  Anyway, the 3 things I would start with are  fsck, 
debugfs, and unlink



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