[ubuntu-in] How to verify actual space on a disk (maybe OT)

[Shrikant Khanduri]

In your case I feel the garbage values are entered into the Inode
table, though no such files exists.
The intention of pendrive developer was wrong. In this case I feel it is
a complete hardware problem, No role of OS.
Once I got the same type of output, but that time problem was in the
harddisk due to overheating or bad file system (was an embedded device).

On 13 April 2010 21:34, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:

> In case people are wondering what crap was loaded onto the disk then
> here is what ls looks like
>
> /media/2022-62E3$ ls
> !.#  ).+  ?.?  ?.?  ?.?  1.3  9.;  A.C  i.k  i.K  q.s  Q.s  y.[  y.{
> !.#  ).+  ?.?  ?.?  ?.?  1.3  a.c  A.C  i.k  i.K  q.s  Q.s  y.[  °  ?   ?.?
> !.#  ).+  ?.?  ?.?  ?.?  9.;  a.c  A.C  i.k  i.K  q.s  Q.s  y.{  °  ?   ?.?
> !.#  ).+  ?.?  ?.?  1.3  9.;  a.c  A.C  i.k  i.K  q.s  y.[  y.{  °  ?   ?.?
> !.#  ).+  ?.?  ?.?  1.3  9.;  a.c  A.C  i.k  i.K  Q.s  y.[  y.{  °  ?   ?.?
> !.#  ).+  ?.?  ?.?  1.3  9.;  a.c  A.C  i.k  q.s  Q.s  y.[  y.{  °  ?   ?.?
> !.#  ?.?  ?.?  ?.?  1.3  9.;  a.c  A.C  i.K  q.s  Q.s  y.[  y.{  °  ?   ?.?
> ).+  ?.?  ?.?  ?.?  1.3  9.;  a.c  i.k  i.K  q.s  Q.s  y.[  y.{  °  ?   ?.?
> ram at ram-laptop:/media/2022-62E3$
>
> tried opening these files with gedit / sudo gedit etc i get error
> messages , tried the less command and that too gives me error
> messages.
>
> In case you are wondering why i am curious, its because i want to know
> how come some software can fool an OS (in this case linux) into
> believing something that it is not. Is there a chance for malware to
> be loaded on to be exploited ??
>
> ram
>
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