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From: Xav' <xp@××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs?
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:51:59
Message-Id: 7d258800056e573f18d430c586e210a6@mail.xen
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Corrupt files or ntfs-3g fs? by Mick
1 On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:37:35 +0100, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hi All,
3 >
4 > I have a ntfs partition which I mount with ntfs-3g and fuse. Some months
5 > ago
6 > I had split a video file which thereafter bzipped:
7 >
8 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00001xaa.bz2
9 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00002xaa.bz2
10 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00003xaa.bz2
11 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00004xaa.bz2
12 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00005xaa.bz2
13 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00006xaa.bz2
14 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00007xaa.bz2
15 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00008xaa.bz2
16 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00009xaa.bz2
17 > -????????? ? ? ? ? ? rec00010xaa.bz2
18 >
19 > The ??? above show me that something is amiss and the files have been
20 > corrupted. I recall deleting them (or trying to) from within MSWindows,
21 > but
22 > I couldn't do that and, of course, blamed MSWindows for it.
23 >
24 > Now I am looking at this having booted into Gentoo and I cannot delete
25 > them:
26 > =====================================
27 > /mnt/VideoDrive $ rm rec00001xaa.bz2
28 >
29 > rm: cannot remove `rec00001xaa.bz2': No such file or directory
30 > =====================================
31 >
32 > shred does not work either:
33 > =====================================
34 > $ shred -v -z -u rec00001xaa.bz2
35 > shred: rec00001xaa.bz2: failed to open for writing: No such file or
36 > directory
37 > =====================================
38 >
39 > This is how it has been mounted:
40 >
41 > $ mount | grep Video
42 > /dev/sda9 on /mnt/VideoDrive type fuseblk
43 > (rw,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
44 >
45 > Is there an application I could use to remove them and free the space on
46 > the
47 > disk, or should I run chkdisk or fsck first? I cannot afford to lose the
48
49 > remaining data on the disk and I do not have another disk as large to
50 back
51 > up
52 > first.
53
54 I think that you have to boot into windows and try to run chkdsk to repair
55 the filesystem.
56
57 HTH.
58
59 Xav'

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