Just wanted to toss my experience in here.. I've had this problem a couple
times when something went wrong with the filesystem (power outage, bad
library file, flakey hardware.. whatever else that can corrupt a
filesystem :)

The only way that I know of getting rid of these files is to become
familiar with a program called 'debugfs'.  It's a little scary at first,
but after cleaning up files like this a few times, it get's a lot
easier. :)

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, der.hans wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Robert Ambrose wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Have you forced a fsck?  
> 
> Sort of. The drive went south on me today. Thought it was gonna be the 2nd
> Linux box I've ever lost, but e2fsck rescued it and now I can decommission
> it instead :). Actually, I'm pretty certain I can do that with the other
> one too...
> 
> > Special files can be removed just line any other file. {ls|ch}attr doesn't
> > seem to apply to specials.  
> 
> That's what I'd hoped, but it wasn't working. I'm pretty certain that if I
> bounce the drive off the sidewalk a few times they'll be gone :).
> 
> danke,
> 
> der.hans
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