can't remove 0 byte files

[marcon00]

I got two exactly same files, in very the same folder that are not visible only in terminal. They somehow do now allow my system to boot,it asks for manual scan and it stops on this file.

B# ls -s
ls: cannot access Radoslaw Skowron.doc: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access Radoslaw Skowron.doc: No such file or directory
total 0
0 Radoslaw Skowron.doc 0 Radoslaw Skowron.doc
root@ubuntu:#

# rm Radoslaw\ Skowron.doc
rm: cannot remove `Radoslaw Skowron.doc': No such file or director

cant get rid of these files .. its soo annoying.. .. anyone ?

[damis648]

Hm... try removing the folder maybe?

rm -r foldername

[marcon00]

Hm... try removing the folder maybe?

rm -r foldername

tried that too..nothing :\ even mv ...

[evilaim]

Yes, that would help. Generally, you need to add flags for deleting files. For directories, I usually just use: rm -rf foldername

It has stuck with me since I'm an old school user. If you want to remove a file in a folder, just cd into the folder and remove it that way.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

-Evil

[marcon00]

Yes, that would help. Generally, you need to add flags for deleting files. For directories, I usually just use: rm -rf foldername

It has stuck with me since I'm an old school user. If you want to remove a file in a folder, just cd into the folder and remove it that way.

Good luck and I hope this helps.

-Evil

and this is what my laptop got to say on that :
# rm -rf USB/
rm: cannot remove directory `USB': Directory not empty

let me see if everything is fine now.

brb


its a folder on my desktop called USB ..

but ... i tried -rf inside that folder , i specified that file.. and its gone now.

[evilaim]

Good to hear, but you don't need a / at the end of it...
you could always do: rm -rf USB/*
but generally rm -rf USB
would work great.

[marcon00]

Good to hear, but you don't need a / at the end of it...
you could always do: rm -rf USB/*
but generally rm -rf USB
would work great.

thanks.. but guess what, somehow they came back .. im so lost why this happens. I'm gonna hard format my Drives, see if there are any problems with the disk ( i need to format anyways )

sss2.docx
?? ?????.EXT ???? ??????? ???? ??????.txt
?? ?????.EXT ???? ??????? ???? ??????.txt
?? ?????.EXT ???? ??????? ???? ??????.txt
?? ?????.EXT ???? ??????? ???? ??????.txt
?? ?????.EXT ???? ??????? ???? ??????.txt
?? ?????.EXT ???? ??????? ???? ??????.txt


cant delete them .. again .. even with -rf

[eragon100]

Did you make those files or did they really "just appear"? It sounds like you got a virus. Which would be pretty bad, because it would be the first destructive, hard-to-remove virus for linux, ever

[soltanis]

It's probably not a virus. It sounds to me more like a file system problem, run as root

fsck -C / -r

To check your file system integrity. (assuming your suspect files are in your / partition)

EDIT.
And unmount the partition first.

[dcstar]

It's probably not a virus. It sounds to me more like a file system problem, run as root

fsck -C / -r

To check your file system integrity. (assuming your suspect files are in your / partition)

EDIT.
And unmount the partition first.

Which means this cannot be done on a booted system.

Boot off a Live CD and do a check on the partition using the Partition Manager.