Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:17:02 +0800
From: Adrian Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto/linux file system problem

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:59:02AM -0700, Christian Gennerat wrote:
> Now I am with Mandrake 8.0 base and ext3fs
> ~> uname -a
> Linux bcv66vbb. 2.4.17 #3 mer mar 27 09:57:59 UTC 2002 i586 unknown
> ~> ls -la /home
> total 32936
> drwxr-xr-x   13 root     root         4096 f?v  7 20:41 .
> drwxr-xr-x   23 root     root         4096 mar 26 10:58 ..
> -rw-------    1 root     root     33554432 jan 28 17:53 .journal
> 
> In each partition there is a big file that I can't remove

The one you listed above?  That's the ext3 journal inode -- if you
remove it, interesting (and potentially fatal) things could happen to
your filesystem.  That's why its "immutable" attribute is set.

- Adrian



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