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keepitsimpleengineer
Asked: 2018-05-10 09:57:20 +0800 CST

How to remove bad entry in home directory

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My home directory looks like this:

# ls -lt
total 417656
drwxrwxr-x 2 ljohnson ljohnson 427577344 May  9 08:48 2z9TnVLzmf
drwxr-xr-x 4 ljohnson ljohnson      4096 May  9 07:42 transmission
drwxr-xr-x 6 ljohnson ljohnson      4096 Apr  3 13:37 Downloads
drwxrwxr-x 5 ljohnson ljohnson      4096 Mar 28 07:25 Desktop
drwxrwxr-x 2 ljohnson ljohnson      4096 Sep 17  2017 saa7164
...

Where the size of 2z9TnVLzmf is a problem.

Efforts to remove such as # rm -rf have proved futile.

#ls 2z9TnVLzmf returns no result and has to be canceled.

Update: fsck is set to run at every boot for this relatively small partition

# df -hT | grep /dev/
/dev/sdc1      ext4       63G   60G  361M 100% /
tmpfs          tmpfs     2.0G   16M  2.0G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1      xfs       2.8T  1.5T  1.3T  54% /pvr
/dev/sda1      xfs       4.6T  2.9T  1.7T  64% /pvu
/dev/sdc3      xfs       395G  101G  294G  26% /pvt
/dev/sdd1      xfs       1.9T 1023G  840G  55% /pvs
home-directory command-line files rm 16.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    So I got a Kali USB stick, shut her down, pulled other discs, and booted into Kali.

    # lsblk
# e2fsck -f -C 0 /dev/sda1
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
# cd /mnt/home/ljohnson/
# rm -rf 2z9TnVLzmf

    rm ran for at least 45 minutes but less than two hours but 2z9TnVLzmf is gone.

    Now the partition is %36

    # df -hT | grep /dev/
/dev/sda1      ext4       63G   21G   39G  36% /
/dev/sdc1      xfs       2.8T  1.5T  1.3T  53% /pvr
/dev/sdb1      xfs       1.9T 1010G  853G  55% /pvs
/dev/sde1      xfs       4.6T  2.9T  1.8T  62% /pvu
/dev/sda3      xfs       395G  101G  294G  26% /pvt
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