I'm hoping someone can tell me which app creates a dir named tmp on the internal memory card. It always seemed to be empty in the past, and I would often delete it... but now it contains a 2.9mb file named "t"LASHW~1 that I can't delete, even as root. I believe it throws back an error about being a read only system file. :/ The "t" is actually some kind of half-sized t like symbol.

Even more odd, if I screw wth it (e.g. try to delete) sometimes after reboot it will create additional files, one was as large as 4 mb. These others I could thankfully delete. Another oddity, terminal and emelfm both show a great many ".." entries in the tmp directory. 13 of them to be exact.

I was thinking that streamtuner was the app which was creating the tmp directory. Or perhaps vagalume or maiku or mplayer? Interestingly, streamtuner has suddenly stopped showing shoutcast catagorries other then 'top streams' and search.

Sorry if this sounds confusing.... as I am thorougghly confused.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? I cannot reformat the card at this time.

Well, tmp is the normal Linux directory for temporary files. Good apps delete temp files when they're done with them, but it's not required.

The way I posed the question probably does make it hard for anyone to help. The cause aside, how should I go about removing this file? Trying to delete as root results in the following:

Nokia-N800-50-2:/media/mmc2# rm -r tmp
rm: descend into directory 'tmp'? y
rm: remove 'tmp/τLASHW~1'? y
rm: cannot remove 'tmp/τLASHW~1': Read-only file system
rm: cannot remove 'tmp': Read-only file system

This tmp directory has jusst started to appear fairly recently. Up to now its always been empty and I'd just delete it. I only have a handful of apps installed and tho I was curious, never took the time to test which app was creating it.

Your memory card is corrupt.

See the "τLASHW~1'?" Invalid file name.

In windows, give it a chkdsk and delete the folder or in linux, fsck it.