On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 19:54:20 -0700, Marc wrote in message
<74553f6b-2616-70e1-e742-1ce9275b3480@???>:

> On 3/15/21 6:31 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 10:28:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro via Dng
> > wrote:
> >> On 3/14/21 10:09 PM, Ludovic Bellière wrote:
> >>> I assume you read the man page of fsck, as it's return code is
> >>> what you want to pay attention to.
> >>>
> >>> As for lsof, the correct parameters would be `lsof +aL1 /dev/sdx.
> >>> It should have thrown an error were you to use `lsof -L1`. If
> >>> lsof returns nothing, your drive is most likely corrupted.
> >> You are correct.  I used '+L' NOT '-L'.
> >>> It may also be possible that the files you removed have other
> >>> references on your file system, aka. hard links. To find them, you
> >>> would need to know the inode number, either by using `stat` or
> >>> `ls -i`. You can then find them using `find -inum`.
> >>>
> >>> Since you already removed the files, you most likely can't know
> >>> the inode number. However you could throw a `find $path -size
> >>> n[cwbkMG]` to list the files with the matching size.
> >> I'm not following you on this.  What is this going to do for me?
> >> 'find' is only going to show undeleted files.  How does this
> >> help?
> > It is possible for a single file to be hard-linked in several
> > places in the file system. If so, removing it in one place will
> > still leave it accessible from another, and therefore not deleted.
> >
> > Files have reference counts to keep track of this.
>
> These files should not have any links, hard or soft.  None of the
> other files in that directory show a reference count above 1. They
> are backup files created by fsarchiver.  I'm just trying to free up
> space by deleting files from January.

..any chance they have white-space-character-only names?
E.g. " ", " ", " " etc, or Norwegian æ, ø, å, or some
invisible non-Latin alphabet soup not supported by your
fonts nor locales?
You should still be able to cut-n-paste those and have
them show up as high-lighted boxes.

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...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
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best case, worst case, and just in case.