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Old 10-26-2011
How to unmount a folder and do check disk only in that path
I need to check if a folder has some kind of logic disk problems.

I have a FreeBSD machine where the (root)\tmp\TEST folder has some file created by a script that i cannot delete.

If i rename the tmp\TEST folder then i can delete them (apparently) but if i recreate a folder in tmp directory with the same name 'TEST' the files 'magically' reappears.

So i need to unmount the folder and do a checkdisk but only in this folder (as the machine is actually hosting a firewall system and i want to be sure to not compromise the other files in the system).

As i'm really at first step in linux/freebsd command learning:

how can i unmount the folder tmp and how can i do a checkdisk only in tmp folder?
# 2  
Old 10-26-2011
Why are you having problems deleting them? Oddly structured names?
If the files reappear then a currently running process creates them. They probably are there for a reason. Please show the output of
Code:
find /tmp -exec ls -l {} \;

# 3  
Old 10-27-2011
This is the output:
Code:
[root@NSMeXpressII /]# cd tmp
[root@NSMeXpressII tmp]# find /tmp -exec ls -l {} \;
total 16
drwx------  2 root root 16384 Sep  2  2010 lost+found
total 4
srwxrwxrwx  1 xfs xfs 0 Aug 24 14:57 fs7100
srwxrwxrwx  1 xfs xfs 0 Aug 24 14:57 /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
total 8
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 152 Oct 27 08:31 cpu.call
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 152 Oct 27 08:31 /tmp/.nsmxwui/cpu.call
-rw-------  1 nsm nsm 39 Oct 27 08:01 /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432.lock
total 0
total 0
srwxrwxrwx  1 nsm nsm 0 Oct 27 08:01 /tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432
total 4
srwxrwxrwx  1 nsm nsm 0 Sep 15 10:54 X991
srwxrwxrwx  1 nsm nsm 0 Sep 15 10:54 /tmp/.X11-unix/X991
[root@NSMeXpressII tmp]#


What this command do?

---------- Post updated at 10:24 AM ---------- Previous update was at 09:42 AM ----------

After done the previous output i've reproduced the error:

i've run the script again (i've generated the new files) i've tryed to delete them and verified they are undeletable.

Then i've run again your command: (find test/ -exec ls -l {} \Smilie

And this is the new output:

Code:
[root@NSMeXpressII tmp]# find test/ -exec ls -l {} \;
total 168
-rw-r--r--  1 nsm nsm 162689 Oct 27 09:11 FW-Log.txt
-rw-r--r--  1 nsm nsm 162689 Oct 27 09:11 test/FW-Log.txt
[root@NSMeXpressII tmp]#

why this file is undeletable?



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---------- Post updated at 12:39 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:24 AM ----------

(For mod) Ok thnkU Smilie
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-27-2011 at 05:47 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags, thank you
 
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