On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:37:38 -0600
Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
>
> >>
> >> Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not
> >> permitted. The file is also dated 1931 !
> >>
> >
> > This is the output of ls -l
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l *
> > ---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko
> >
> > Weird huh!
>
> Not really.
>
> It has really strange permissions, and it's in lost+found, which is
> an indication that you have already had some form of filesystem
> damage that was probably "fixed" by an fsck.
>
> You might want to give it normal permissions first before trying
> other operations on it, and it still may be that you have other
> filesystem damage to whatever kind of filesystem you're running
> there that wasn't truly fixed by the fsck.
I'll try but every attempt to do anything to the file so far has been
greeted by "permission denied".
>
> If you suspect the drive is dying, it's probably a very good time to
> copy any data or files you need off of it, depending on the state of
> the drive, it may already be too late. Hopefully you have been
> making proper backups all along.
>
That's not really a problem - I'm running Sid so there isn't much on
the partition that is irreplaceable :)
>
> Welcome to the "I've had an important disk fail" merit badge club!
> (GRIN)
Thanks...do I get a membership card ?
Cheers
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