Invalid ls results

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System - H80
AIX 4.3.3 ml 03
FS - /dev/hd1 (/home)
User - root

Description: When I run the command "find / -name core" an error message is returned which reads:
find: 0652-019 The status on /home/ftpuser is not valid.

So, I cd'd to /home and ran "ls". ftpuser is in the output. Then I ran "ls -l", but ftpuser was not in the output.

I attempted to "mkdir ftpuser", and received this message:
mkdir: 0653-358 Cannot create ftpuser.
ftpuser: Do not specify an existing file.

While I suspect that an inode may exist for this file, even though the file is absent, I don't know how to find out for sure. Or maybe inodes are not the problem at all. At this point I just don't know.

Would someone please point me in the right direction?

Thank you.

 

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Go into single-user mode, or maintenance mode, and fsck /home

 

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Thanks for the input. I thought it was the right thing to do, too, but as I was preparing the system for that I discovered someone had nfs mounted /home/ftpuser over /home/ftpuser. When I umounted it things cleared up.