Comments on: How to: Linux / UNIX Delete or Remove Files With Inode Number

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:18:42 +0000

I have an inode with 2 duplicate blocks. I have the name of the inode and the blocks (all numbers) so how can I delete only one block and leave the other?

By: Jack Nichol

Jack Nichol — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:36:22 +0000

In my server i can see that the Inode is full. It shows 100%. It cause error when i access my domain in the browser. I have cleared all the files in “/tmp”. Now i have few free space in Inode.

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[~]# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sd1 1200000 1188860 12640 100% /
none 153600 96 153504 1% /dev
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How to find the files which cause the Inode space to be full. Is there any command to find the files that has created in the server due to Inode session. Please help.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:57:24 +0000

On a related note,
using find {args} -exec rm -rf {} \;
is deprecated and should be replaced with find {args} -delete

By: Sanjay Kumar

Sanjay Kumar — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:32:51 +0000

I got a better idea to delete/rename files/folder with special character and also without any risk..
Just WINSCP from Windows system to UNIX/Linux system.. then you can search and rename/delete the file/folder

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:05:08 +0000

Thanks – very useful.

dean

By: venki

venki — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:25:54 +0000

The special files created as above can be removed by ‘rm’ cmd in my ubuntu 10.04. Probably the rm command is updated for simplicity.

By: Madhukar

Madhukar — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:46:15 +0000

one file got renamed to noname file (blank). Is it possible to open or rename a file with tab in its name.

apprieciate any help regarding this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:20:07 +0000

This will delete a file regardless of how screwed up the name is. Copy ‘del’ to somewhere in your path, run del . Paste the following into a file (del.c) and run cc -o del del.c

#include

int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
return remove(argv[1]);
}

By: cienias

cienias — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:32:50 +0000

thx man :)

By: Mohit Joshi

Mohit Joshi — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:34:46 +0000

how can we describe the uses of inode in linux ?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:44:08 +0000

Had all kinds of fun trying to remove a file called ????
Confirmed afterwards that it wasn’t just any old
# touch “????”
… kind of file. Simple “\” did the trick on that one. But the original file (don’t know how it was created) wouldn’t go down with rm with any manner of escaping, find (inode and -exec rm, method), or debugfs’s rm command. Eventually booted up Windows–pains me to say it, but…. WinSCP saw it as four ASCII squares and was able to delete it. (WinSCP saw the `touch “????”` file properly… as ????)

By: 2GB

2GB — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:42:36 +0000

got a 2gb+ file which refuses to delete because of file system does not like large files. sco openserver unix.

my question is: can i delete it using the inode thing. i don’t want to risk it by trying it before i know the concequences!.

Thanks for yor help

By: netors

netors — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:53:34 +0000

I have a server with a web app,
my inodes are all used up,
i see this tutorial to delete inodes,
but, i do not know which inodes/files to delete
i dont know where my web app is creating this innodes… how can i know this?’

By: Dave K

Dave K — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:41:19 +0000

Guys, for most cases you can just cd into another dir and do rm ../”-rf-file” and it works a charm. Only prob I had which brought me here was a file name “^M”
don’t ask how I got it but i could not delete it to save my life…

By: farnaz

farnaz — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:57:35 +0000

How can I delete a picture in Linux?

By: thiru

thiru — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:22:58 +0000

Hi friend,

Can any one teach me or tell me how to do backup using tape drive. currently i using “tar cMvf /dev/st0 /home” but not very sure on this. how to do complete backup for few directory using 1 command.

Thanks

thiru

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:25:15 +0000

that long line is a double middle dash :\ rm “double dash” etc..

By: ciccio

ciccio — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:24:33 +0000

normal people use rm — \\+Xy\ \\+\\8 , and that’s it :)

By: Y Rodrigues

Y Rodrigues — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:09:13 +0000

Hi, people,

I got a way to delete this file. I ‘ve used debugfs. It has a rm command like the shell. Easy boys, read the man page.

By: Y Rodrigues

Y Rodrigues — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:45:00 +0000

I have a file called winhelp.exe16. I can not delete it, neither by your method!
I am from Brazil, “Operação não permitida” means “Operation not allowed”.

[yr@localhost dlls]$ ls -l winhelp*
—–w—- 1 root 32784 98320 Jan 4 1970 winhelp.exe16
[yr@localhost dlls]$ stat winhelp*
File: `winhelp.exe16′
Size: 98320 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 arquivo comum
Device: 308h/776d Inode: 289 Links: 1
Access: (0020/—–w—-) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: (32784/ UNKNOWN)
Access: 1970-01-02 18:30:56.000000000 -0300
Modify: 1970-01-04 06:55:28.000000000 -0300
Change: 1970-01-03 12:43:12.000000000 -0300
[yr@localhost dlls]$ find . -inum 289 -exec rm -i {} \;
rm: remove write-protected arquivo comum `./winhelp.exe16′? y
rm: imposível remover `./winhelp.exe16′: Operação não permitida
[yr@localhost dlls]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost dlls]# find . -inum 289 -exec rm -i {} \;
rm: remove write-protected arquivo comum `./winhelp.exe16′? y
rm: imposível remover `./winhelp.exe16′: Operação não permitida
[root@localhost dlls]#