How to remove

[Surajit Santra]

Hi,

I have found that one file has been create in root which is not showing file permission, owner and file name. As well as this file is occupied a lot of space in root. For this reasons I want to remove this file and free the root space.
But I cann't remove this file. Please give the necessary steps for resolve this issue.

Thanks & regards

Surajit

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] which is not showing file permission,
> owner and file name.

What, exactly, does this mean? Showing
actual commands with their actual output can
be more helpful than vague descriptions and
interpretations.

> But I cann't remove this file. [...]

"I can't do something" is not a useful
problem description. It does not show what
you did. It does not show what happened when
you did it.

[R.K. #]

Hi Surajit,

How are you trying to remove it?

rm does not work?

[johnsonpk]

Hi Surajit,

can you post ls -li output

if the inode number for that file is known ,we can remove it with find command

rgds!
Johnson

[Khalid Shakoor]

Hi Surahit,

Please send the ls -ltr output and mention which file you want to remove.

Normally rm will work for you if you want to forcefully remove use rm -rf .

Be careful it will not prompt you for confirmation ,for more details check man rm

Khalid

[Michael Steele_2]

ls -il {file-name}

find . -inum [inode-number] -exec rm -i {} \;

[johnsonpk]

Hi Surajit,

Here is the steps if you know inode number for the file

1) list inum for file

#ls -li
2) confirm it with find comand
# find . -inum -exec ls -l {} \;

3) if the above command listing your proposed file , delete it with the below command

#find . -inum -exec rm {} \;



rgds!
Johnson

[Surajit Santra]

Hi,

I am sending the output -

# ls -li
total 3899994
rw------- 1 root sys 1969295360 Dec 29 15:30





2273 -rw------- 1 root sys 52534 Nov 5 10:22 .ICEauthority
3197 -rw------- 1 root sys 221 Nov 5 10:22 .TTauthority
3218 -rw------- 1 root sys 343 Nov 5 10:22 .Xauthority
2244 drwxr-xr-x 11 root sys 8192 Nov 5 10:26 .dt
2269 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 5451 Oct 10 2007 .dtprofile
2242 -r--r--r-- 1 bin bin 1063 Jul 30 14:54 .profile
3115 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 39 Jul 8 2008 .rhosts
3252 -rw------- 1 root sys 23068 Jan 4 12:32 .sh_history
2270 drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 96 Oct 3 2008 .ssh
2268 drwxr-xr-x 5 root sys 96 Oct 11 2007 .sw
3022 drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 96 Jul 28 19:16 DATA-PROTECTOR
3153 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root sys 10 Oct 3 2008 HORCM -> /opt/HORCM
2434 lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 8 Oct 11 2007 bin -> /usr/bin
3099 drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 96 Jul 8 2008 cdrom
3091 -rw------- 1 root sys 848448 Mar 8 2008 core.2008-03-26-20:31:50
95 -rw------- 1 root sys 848448 Oct 20 2008 core.2008-10-27-15:31:13
3164 -rw------- 1 root sys 848448 Dec 2 2008 core.2008-12-06-17:57:52
2 drwxr-xr-x 4 oracle dba 96 Jul 29 19:45 crs
8212 drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle dba 184 Oct 24 22:52 dbbackup
72 dr-xr-xr-x 20 bin bin 8192 Jan 2 22:40 dev
2487 drwxrwxrwx 2 root sys 96 Dec 12 2007 dvd
4 dr-xr-xr-x 32 bin bin 8192 Dec 15 19:43 etc
2 dr-xr-xr-x 6 bin bin 96 Mar 17 2009 home
2532 dr-xr-xr-x 4 root sys 96 Dec 12 2007 hpap
2075 lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 8 Oct 11 2007 lib -> /usr/lib
3037 drwx------ 3 root sys 8192 Oct 23 2008 logs
3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Sep 8 2004 lost+found
2882 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 0 Dec 13 2007 mapfile
5 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 1 Dec 15 19:42 net
2792 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 15196 Mar 24 2008 null
2 dr-xr-xr-x 86 bin bin 8192 Oct 21 2008 opt
2 drwxr-xr-x 3 oracle dba 96 Mar 31 2009 oraarch
2 drwxr-xr-x 5 oracle dba 1024 Dec 19 2008 oracle
3209 -r--r--r-- 1 root sys 964 Jul 30 14:42 profile_bkp
15 dr-xr-xr-x 15 bin bin 8192 Dec 12 2007 sbin
3157 -rw------- 1 root sys 4426 Jul 30 14:57 sh_history_bkp
2529 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root sys 23666073 Dec 12 2007 sp2p2
3084 -rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 1023860 Jul 9 2008 sqlnet.log
2 dr-xr-xr-x 9 bin bin 8192 Dec 15 19:41 stand
2 drwxrwxrwt 26 root root 8192 Jan 4 12:28 tmp
13 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 96 Feb 8 2008 u01
14 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Mar 20 2009 u02
2 dr-xr-xr-x 23 bin bin 8192 Oct 11 2007 usr
2 dr-xr-xr-x 25 bin bin 8192 Oct 10 2007 var
# find . -inum -exec ls -l {} \;
sh: inode: Cannot find or open the file.
#


Please check this -
total 3899994
rw------- 1 root sys 1969295360 Dec 29 15:30

[Steven Schweda]

> # find . -inum -exec ls -l {} \;
> sh: inode: Cannot find or open the file.

Arrgh. He meant to substitute the actual
inode number for "".

I'd explain it all in more detail, but then
my head might explode.

[R.K. #]

Yes, you need to use inode number to delete this file.

inode number is mentioned in the first column (extreme left) of "ls -il" output.

Go into that directory where that file is present, then

# find . -inum [inode-number] -exec rm -i {} \;

Use "rm -i" option so that it will ask for confirmation before deleting the file, so you will be sure that you are deleting correct file.