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Why I am seeing two files (directories) in the same directory with same name ‘storage’? The inode numbers are different.

root@OpenWrt:/# fsck.ext4 -p /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: clean, 2213/979200 files, 2026329/3912206 blocks root@OpenWrt:/# root@OpenWrt:/# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt root@OpenWrt:/# cd /mnt root@OpenWrt:/mnt# ls -l drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 etc drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 31 21:16 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Apr 14 2018 storage drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 20 2018 storage drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Apr 3 2018 upper drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 work root@OpenWrt:/mnt# ls -li 261121 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 etc 11 drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jan 31 21:16 lost+found 391681 drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Apr 14 2018 storage 783361 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 20 2018 storage 130561 drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Apr 3 2018 upper 522241 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 work root@OpenWrt:/mnt#
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    Likely trailing whitespace; try ls -Q or ls -b Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 15:45
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    nice, its a whitespace../overlay# ls -Q "etc" "lost+found" "storage" "storage " "upper" "work" Commented Apr 14, 2018 at 15:51

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Files in the same directory that look visually similar, on a filesystem that’s not corrupted, will have different inodes and filenames. In this case, there appears to be trailing whitespace. Inspect the filenames by using ls -Q or ls -b. You can manipulate (rename or delete) the one you want by using find with the -inum predicate to specify the inode number, or use shell globs with interactive prompting; something like:

for f in storage*; do printf 'removing: —>%b<—\n' "$f"; rm -i -- "$f"; done
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