On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:19, Gustin Johnson wrote: > I have an ext3 file system with some corrupt files. When I try to > remove them I get the following error: > > rm: cannot remove `linux-2.6.17.13/net/core/scm.o': Operation not permitted > > The permissions of the file look like this: > > ?r--r-srwx 28527 154169971 808546861 1852400175 1994-09-07 20:09 > linux-2.6.17.13/net/core/scm.o >
Can you change the permissions on the file? Not sure what user you are logged in as, but having them set as read only would prevent deletion I'm guessing. Neil -- Neil Bower CLUG - http://clug.ca Registered Linux User # 323470 ( http://counter.li.org ) _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

