Quoth Ed Zimmermann on Thu, Aug 17, 2000:
> There is a file in the /usr/exim/spool/msg directory that looks very
> strange.
> User/group are numbers, file size is wacked and the date in way in the
> future.
It's not a file size, it's a block device number.
> I can't view it or delete it.. I even tried booting into single user mode.
> There are the file details..
>
> b--xrw-rwt 1 1510633525 1668760147 1044,80,304 Apr 5 2005
> 13KxKN-0004xw-00
It seems like you have some sort of BSD system, right? The
explanation below will probably only be good for BSD. It also
seems like you had a crash (or power fail) lately, and you don't
have soft updates enabled.
You can remove the file by using clri(8). If you do "df
/usr/exim/spool/msg", you will get the filesystem (such as
/dev/wd0a). If you do "ls -li
/usr/exim/spool/msg13KxKN-0004xw-00", in first column you will
get the inode number of the file (such as 1234). Then do (as
root, in single user mode, before mounting the filesystem
read-write), substituting the correct values of disk device and
inode number:
# clri /dev/wd0a 1234
# fsck /dev/wd0a
Vadik.
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