I just wrote: > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > total 269488144 > c---r----- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > I can't delete it!
I just booted the rescue disk and ran `e2fsck -f' on the partition. After it fixed lots of stuff, including /root/Mail/drafts and files in /dev, I thought I'd be okay. After rebooting the file was still there, and still undeletable. What's worse, I looked at /dev and found unsavory things: c---r----- 1 11576 12589 115, 100 Oct 4 1997 MAKEDEV c---r----- 1 8224 12320 32, 32 Feb 11 1987 beep c---r----- 1 8224 8224 10, 48 Aug 2 1995 watchdog I can't delete those either, in order to restore them using dpkg. I'd really appreciate ideas here. Sound drastic to wipe out my root partition and start over, but... If I were to do that, could I do: - dpkg --get-selections > ~/selections - wipe out / - reboot with rescue disk - mount /home - dpkg --set-selections < ~/selections ? Are dependencies handled correctly if things aren't installed in the right order? Or must I first install a base Debian system? Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
