Huge sdc1 file appeared on my Home folder

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#1

Probably a simple question… I have openSUSE 11.1. 4 HDDs installed. All are mounted through fstab and formatted ext3. All is cool. Except recently I got a huge file on my Home folder that is about 8Gb. And it is so named after the last HDD partition sdc1, What is this file? It’s root owned, so I don’t want to mess something up by deleting it. Any advice?

#2

That looks very strange to me. Have you ever played with anything after logging in as root? Like, copying some files to your sdc1 etc.

#3

Did you recently try to copy some files from sdc1? If so you could have easily made a mistake in the command line, ie cp /dev/sdc1/*.mp3 /home/me/music where it would have made one big file called “music” if the music folder didn’t exist!

You can read the contents using the cat command - cat /whereverthefileis/filename

That might give you an idea of what is in there.

Or simply identify the filetype by typing file /whereverthefileis/filename

#4

The filename is ‘sdc1’. Have yet to try to cat the file to see whats in it. Although I don’t know if I’ll be able to understand 8Gb of output.
As far as I recall i haven’t been messing around with root access on that computer. BUT I did modify the exports NFS file share recently. I think it was after that reboot that I found the file.
Just to make sure. If it is on the Home folder of my sda1 partition as seen through nautilus, then if I delete the file, it won’t delete files on other partitions? I have stuff on my sdc1 partition I do not want to lose.

#5

what does the command below say?

file /path/to/strange/file/sdc1
#6

Sorry bout the late response. Have been AFK for a while.

This it the output to

file /home/chepoxx/sdc1
couldn't open file
/home/chepoxx/sdc1: writable, regular file, no read permission

So what do you guys think? Should I rm the file?

#7

On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:36:03 GMT, chepoxxx
<chepoxxx@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>Sorry bout the late response. Have been AFK for a while.
>
>This it the output to
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>
>Code:
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> file /home/chepoxx/sdc1
> couldn’t open file
> /home/chepoxx/sdc1: writable, regular file, no read permission
>--------------------
>
>
>So what do you guys think? Should I rm the file?

There is something i do not understand yet.

Please try:

mount

and tell us wht that says.