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Mike Panetta wrote:
>Use ls -b to see what the characters are and then delete the
>files using octal notation '\0??'.
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>Mike
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>From: Preston Boyington <PBoyington at polyengineering.com>
>Sent: Sep 1, 2004 10:22 AM
>To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts (E-mail)" <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: [ale] "undeleteable" file
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>I have a file/folder on my usb drive that is corrupt. In the file name there are squares/numbers/?/+ and other such junk. I believe that when my friend was using the drive he unplugged it while a transfer was in progress or maybe his XP machine locked it up.
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>My problem is this: I can't delete the file from Windows or Linux. I booted to a Knoppix disk that I had and it barfed when I tried to delete the file (gave me a similar error message as Windows, actually). What is the best way to remove this file from the drive? Worst case I will remove all my good information and format it (8GB), but was hoping for a better way in case this should happen again.
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>Thanks,
>Preston
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