On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 22:04 +1000, John Bennett wrote:
An external disk had a bit of a prob when copying data to it, and I now have a bunch of corrupted files on it: -????????? ? ? ? ? ? pb072311.jpg -????????? ? ? ? ? ? pb072312.jpg -????????? ? ? ? ? ? pb072313.jpg -????????? ? ? ? ? ? pb072314.jpg
john@boss:/media/disk/data/draw/camera/misc> ls -la pb0723* ls: cannot access pb072302.jpg: Input/output error ls: cannot access pb072303.jpg: Input/output error ls: cannot access pb072304.jpg: Input/output error ls: cannot access pb072305.jpg: Input/output error
Is there any way to delete these?
I suspect your situation is more complicated than that. The directory itself is probably corrupt. I would make a backup of all that I could off the partition before doing anything else. After that is secure, try running fsck on the partition. If you are lucky, it can repair things. As a minimum, more files might become accessible. Or, it may go south. Which is why you should make the backup BEFORE playing with fsck. After all this, I personally would re-format the partition. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Krukmakargatan 21 P.O. Box 17009 SE-104 62 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 10-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org