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Date:      Tue, 7 Apr 1998 19:44:51 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: non-removable files after fsck
Message-ID:  <19980407194451.12303@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <H000057c014d4095@MHS>; from THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr on Tue, Apr 07, 1998 at 11:05:07AM %2B0200
References:  <H000057c014d4095@MHS>

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On Tue,  7 April 1998 at 11:05:07 +0200, THIERRY.HERBELOT@telspace.alcatel.fr wrote:
>      Hi,
>
>      I've installed a 2.2.5-Release PC, which runs with generally no
>      trouble. I've seen this morning that the df output on the /var
>      partition did not correspond to the du ouput on the same partition.
>
>      I then rebooted the machine to have fsck repair the partition. It did
>      check / repair / salvage everything bad it found.
>      Files were transferred to /var/lost+found. I kept all files that
>      mattered (got rid of /var/run/*.pid files).
>
>      I'm now with strange files in /var/lost+found and I don't know what to
>      do with them :
>
>      ========================================
>
>      # cd /var/lost+found
>      # ll
>      total 0
>      brwxrwxrwx  25376 5389804  1702043   97, 0x20300061 Feb  5  1995 #0075
>      brwxrwxrwx  12385 1868783  1851878  115, 0x6e65005f Feb 26  1996 #0082
>      b--sr-S--t  14948 5404877  8258982  116, 0x5b3a006f Feb 26  1996 #0092
>      brwxrwxrwx  25384 1744169  8083999  109, 0x6b61005f Feb 26  1996 #0113
>      br-sr-Srwt  14964 1634036  1445470  100, 0x5f6d006d Dec  8 01:53 #0115
>      #
>
>      ========================================
>
>      Has anyone any idea to purge these files ? (I can't rm or mv them :
>      "operation not permitted", even after su'ing to root)

That's a serious mess.  Have you tried chflags noschg?

Greg

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