[NTLUG:Discuss] corrupt file?

[Kevin E. Ivey]

Fred wrote:
> My setup:
> 
> Mdk9.0
> Kmail
> 
> My inbox file is 46952690 bytes and appears to be corrupted, in that I cannot
> copy it with the cp command without getting "cp: reading `./inbox':
> Input/output error". How can I go about fixing it?
> It is supposed to be text... what would be the best way to remove (or convert)
> the non-ascii characters? Or is this an inode problem?

Howdy,

What filesystem are you using? Xfs or Reiserfs or ext3, etc.

The inode recovery is slightly different for each one...

keVIn