character devices appear in reused filesystem

[Ognyan Kulev]

Hi,

After a crash that made the filesystem useless, I've reinstalled my hurd 
without initializing the partition with mke2fs, just e2fsck under Linux 
and rm -fr.  Unfortunately, when working with the newly-installed system 
sometimes some files become character devices.  rm them gives something 
like Operation not permitted.  I "solve" these cases by mv file /tmp.

Has somebody ever experience something like that?  Perhaps we should be 
more complete in filling new inode's fields?

Regards,
ogi