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Fixing corrupted ext2fs partition



I got a next entry in my /var/log directory: 
drwxr--r--   2 nobody   nobody   10975232 Sep 13 08:09 junkbuster 

It is obvious that the entry is corrupted, since no self-respecting
directory wouldn't be 10M sized, but a 1024 entry instead. Now, I don't
care about the 10M or why doesn't fsck fix this problem, the main problem
is, that 
updatedb and logrotate fail on this directory since they 
can't read the contents. I need to remove the entry, but... 
(and here goes the catch) without unmounting the partition. 
I tried ext2ed, but I don't see the way to do it there, 
if anyone knows any way to complete the task, you are welcome to try.... 
Thanks in advance... 
FINiK


..Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors :)
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