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I have a file in a directory that exists:

# cat 0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78 
@root

es5
module

tabs
indent 2
maxlen 80

ass
nomen
plusplus

But when I try to delete it

# rm 0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78 
rm: cannot remove '0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78': No such file or directory

I tried the answers in "No such file or directory" when trying to remove a file, but the file exists? but they don't work. There don't seem to be any special characters.

# ls -1b
0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78
# ls -q
0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78
# find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*0f*"
./0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78
# ls -l
total 512
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 63 Nov 27  2015 0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78
# rm -i -- *
rm: remove regular file '0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78'? y
rm: cannot remove '0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78': No such file or directory
# ls --escape
0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78

What's going on here? Can someone help me remove this file?

EDIT: Output of stat command:

$ stat 0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78 
  File: '0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78'
  Size: 63          Blocks: 1          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 48177       Links: 1
Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2016-01-04 00:06:49.697084100 -0500
Modify: 2015-11-27 20:15:19.490769000 -0500
Change: 2017-01-17 23:01:34.343100100 -0500
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Other commands suggested:

$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*0f*" -delete
find: cannot delete ‘./0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78’: No such file or directory
$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*0f*" -exec stat {} +
  File: './0f7fe16ba45fda36462cb35f82ad8c64730e78'
  Size: 63          Blocks: 1          IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 806h/2054d  Inode: 48177       Links: 1
Access: (0777/-rwxrwxrwx)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2016-01-04 00:06:49.697084100 -0500
Modify: 2015-11-27 20:15:19.490769000 -0500
Change: 2017-01-17 23:01:34.343100100 -0500
 Birth: -
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Aditya Kashi
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  • boot from a live CD and run fsck for the partition that has the file in question. – jsalatas Jan 18 '17 at 06:15
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    Can you stat the file and show us the output? – The Pizza Overlord Jan 18 '17 at 09:17
  • What The Pizza Overlord is saying, do stat <filename> – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy Jan 18 '17 at 16:01
  • Thanks for the replies. @jsalatas I'll try that if nothing else works; thanks for the suggestion. – Aditya Kashi Jan 19 '17 at 05:04
  • @The Pizza Overlord I've posted the output, but I can't make anything of it; hopefully it reveals something to you. – Aditya Kashi Jan 19 '17 at 05:05
  • @Serg I've posted the output, thanks for clarifying about the stat command, I didn't know about it. – Aditya Kashi Jan 19 '17 at 05:06
  • @muru I've pasted the output of what you asked too. The first one is giving an error.. – Aditya Kashi Jan 19 '17 at 05:15
  • @AdityaKashi should have been just -delete without the -ok, sorry: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*0f*" -delete, but in any case, I think this is a situation where an fsck is warranted. – muru Jan 19 '17 at 05:32
  • @muru Ran the corrected command. Okay, cool, thanks for your help! So this file is on a NTFS partition. I can just unmount it and run fsck right? Or do I need a live USB stick? – Aditya Kashi Jan 19 '17 at 05:47
  • @AdityaKashi yes, unmounting should be enough. But ntfsfix for NTFS, not fsck – muru Jan 19 '17 at 05:50
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    @AdityaKashi - Your stat output looks good to me. Aside from an inode allocation issue, I wouldn't be sure what to look at next. A file system check would be advisable, however. Out of interest, what happens when you try to interact with the file in any other way? So, renaming, for example using mv, or copying to another directory using cp. – The Pizza Overlord Jan 19 '17 at 08:19

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