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Jayen
Asked: 2011-04-29 14:07:24 +0800 CST

directories with two one dot (.) entries

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I'm trying to clean up my lost and found, and I've managed to remove most things, but I'm left with "almost" empty directories, like:

lost+found/#14042862:
total 1324
dr---wx---  2 76040 43010    4096 2011-04-29 07:56 .
dr---wx---  2 76040 43010    4096 2011-04-29 07:56 .
drwx------ 18 root  root  1187840 2011-04-29 07:56 ..
  • How did I get directories with duplicate entries?
  • Is it safe to unlink the directory when rm complains it's not empty?
  • WTF???
linux files ext3 directory rm

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yes it's really a duplicate. And a force delete may have worked, but an fsck was the proper fix. Basically, I ran fsck, and it saw some bytes it thought was a directory, so it just put a directory entry for it in the lost+found. Running fsck again actually checked the contents of the directory, found the duplicate, and removed it.

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  2. I recommend checking the inode listing of the directory. It's possible that they really aren't the same file.

    ls -al -i

    You might also check to see if one of the directories has a hidden (or non-printable) character with:

    ls -al -Q
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  3. I don't know how you did that, but I'd force delete it and run fsck asap.

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