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Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

From	David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete
Date	2018-09-18 17:30 +0200
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On Tue 18 Sep 2018 at 16:11:09 (+0200), Pétùr wrote:
> Le 18/09/2018 à 15:46, David Wright a écrit :
> >> How can I delete these files without formating ?
> > To what end? I think you've now got an indication of a problem
> > somewhat more serious than some software dreaming up crazy
> > file permissions and timestamps.
> > 
> > I would now be looking at rescuing everything you can from the drive
> > without prejudicing any backups you already have. Meanwhile I'd be
> > trying to determine the source of this corruption. It's rather
> > worrying that you've had both internal and external drives
> > affected. That's outside my experience.
> 
> It is a external hard drive plugged to another computer than the first
> one with the file corruption problem.
> 
> This corrupted files are from a internal hard drive which was in a dead
> computer. I backup the file and now I just want to clean my external HDD.

Well at least this drive has an excuse for being corrupted. If the
computer died, it may have left the disk in any sort of state.
But I see no reason to change strategy: rescue what you can and then
see what fsck can do. But I'd be unhappy about using the disk without
some thorough checking.

Cheers,
David.

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File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-09-11 14:00 +0200
  Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2018-09-11 14:10 +0200
    Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-11 14:20 +0200
  Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-11 14:20 +0200
  File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-09-11 14:30 +0200
    Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-09-11 14:50 +0200
      Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-09-11 15:10 +0200
        Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-09-11 17:00 +0200
          Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-09-11 18:20 +0200
            Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-09-11 19:00 +0200
      Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-11 15:30 +0200
  Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2018-09-11 15:00 +0200
  Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-09-11 15:10 +0200
    Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-09-11 16:50 +0200
      Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-09-11 17:30 +0200
        Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-09-11 19:40 +0200
          Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-09-11 19:50 +0200
            Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2018-09-11 20:30 +0200
            Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-09-11 21:10 +0200
            Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-09-12 01:50 +0200
              Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-09-12 12:10 +0200
          Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-09-11 20:30 +0200
          Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-11 22:30 +0200
    Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2018-09-12 01:20 +0200
      Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-12 03:30 +0200
        Re: red SATA cable corruption (was: File with weird permissions,  impossible to delete) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-09-12 03:40 +0200
          Re: red SATA cable corruption (was: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-12 04:40 +0200
            Re: red SATA cable corruption Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-09-12 05:10 +0200
              Re: red SATA cable corruption Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-12 08:10 +0200
                Re: red SATA cable corruption Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-09-12 13:40 +0200
                OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption) Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-09-14 20:40 +0200
                Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-14 22:00 +0200
                Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-09-18 21:20 +0200
                Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption) Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-09-18 22:00 +0200
                Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable  corruption) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-09-18 22:10 +0200
                Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-09-18 23:20 +0200
                Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable  corruption) Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2018-09-18 23:40 +0200
                Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption) Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-09-19 00:20 +0200
                Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable  corruption) Martin <keine-eile@online.de> - 2018-09-19 10:20 +0200
        Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-09-14 03:10 +0200
  Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-09-18 15:00 +0200
    Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-18 16:10 +0200
      Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2018-09-18 16:20 +0200
        Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-09-18 17:30 +0200

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