On 21 Oct 2002, Russell Johns wrote: > H- > > forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here > ... > essentially a large file that I own I can't delete... > why do I not have permission to delete this file??? > > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso > rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chmod 777 rcj.iso > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso > rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ ls -l > total 423972 > -rwxrwxrwx 1 rcj xcdroast 433717248 Oct 21 10:39 rcj.iso > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chown rcj.rcj rcj.iso > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso > rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm -f rcj.iso > rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied > [rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ >
What does "lsattr rcj.iso" show? If there's an "i" in the mode then it means that superuser has made the file immutable and "chattr -i rcj.iso" by superuser is the only way you're going to be able to delete it. HTH, Oisin Feeley
