Re: Undeletable file

2000-12-20 Thread William T Wilson
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of. I tried rm, chmod, chown on this file as root: all returned permission denied. It's possible that the file has got the immutable flag set, somehow. Try chattr -i filename br-xwx1 282708308 114, 114 Dec 9 2023 991203.c

Re: Undeletable file

2000-12-20 Thread Pollywog
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 14:41:01 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: After running e2fsck on a data partition which had become corrupt I have the following problem. There is a file which I cannot get rid of. I tried rm, chmod, chown on this file as root: all returned permission

Re: Undeletable file

2000-12-20 Thread Cajus Pollmeier
Am Mittwoch, 20. Dezember 2000 20:41 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: After running e2fsck on a data partition which had become corrupt I have the following problem. There is a file which I cannot get rid of. I tried rm, chmod, chown on this file as root: all returned permission denied. ls -l

Re: Undeletable file

2000-12-20 Thread Ethan Benson
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 10:09:58PM +0100, Cajus Pollmeier wrote: Only a diskeditor helps here. I had this problem some months ago after a complete disk crash. Try lsattr. I bet the immutable flag is set, but an appropriate ioctl for an chattr for this block device is not defined. So you

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-27 Thread Ethan Benson
On 26/12/99 Eliot Landrum wrote: Strangely enough though, lsattr is just sitting here ... I'm not sure if this is normal or not. I'll let it sit for 30 min to make sure it has enough time to do whatever it is it is doing. lsattr should not take that long, its just as fast as ls, sounds like

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/25/99, Eliot Landrum addressed Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches: is /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 and the permissions are as follows: p---rw--w-1 root 28531 0 Dec 21 20:04 /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 Apparently your group ^ doesn't really exist in /etc/group.

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/25/99, Eliot Landrum addressed Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches: This one file is causing me terrible grief and I need to get it fixed. The file is /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4 and the permissions are as follows: p---rw--w-1 root 28531 0 Dec 21 20:04

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On 25/12/99 Eliot Landrum wrote: root (superuser) is unable to delete, chmod, modify, move or do ANYTHING to this file. I've done gazillions of things to try and correct it. I've booted up with tomsrtbt, fsck'ed the disk many times, run badblocks on it, tried deleting it when the drive was

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Eliot Landrum
Finally! Some real assistance! :) Strangely enough though, lsattr is just sitting here ... I'm not sure if this is normal or not. I'll let it sit for 30 min to make sure it has enough time to do whatever it is it is doing. What exactly is an immutable file though? Thanks for the replies! Like

Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

1999-12-26 Thread Anthony Wong
Eliot Landrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: EL Finally! Some real assistance! :) EL EL Strangely enough though, lsattr is just sitting here ... I'm not sure if EL this is normal or not. I'll let it sit for 30 min to make sure it has EL enough time to do whatever it is it is doing. EL EL What exactly

Re: undeletable file (RESOLVED)

1997-12-04 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Thanks to all who responded to my question. I was able to delete the file last night by resetting attribute flags using chattr. The attribute flags on that file were ALL set! (Actually, this seems somewhat consistent with the group ID getting mysteriously changed to 65535). No other files were

Re: undeletable file

1997-12-03 Thread G. Kapetanios
I had an examople of such behaviour a while back. It occured for some files in a mounted dos filesystem. If it is not a ext2 filesystem could you be mounting it read only ? (come to think of it maybe it is ext2 and mounted read only as well ) Just a thought On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Ken

Re: undeletable file

1997-12-03 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 04:45:39PM +, G. Kapetanios wrote: I had an examople of such behaviour a while back. It occured for some files in a mounted dos filesystem. If it is not a ext2 filesystem could you be mounting it read only ? (come to think of it maybe it is ext2 and mounted read

Re: undeletable file

1997-12-03 Thread Devin Wong
Someone wrote (sorry, I get digest format and forgot to paste the name): leisure# ls -l fstobdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 65535 29640 Oct 17 23:58 fstobdf rm: remove `fstobdf', overriding mode 0755? y rm: fstobdf: Operation not permitted leisure# chown root.root fstobdf chown: fstobdf:

Re: undeletable file

1997-12-03 Thread David Wright
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, I remember seeing something about this on the list awhile back, but I haven't been able to find it in the archives. I have a file that has somehow been commandeered by an undefined group, and I can't seem to remove, move, or change its

Re: undeletable file

1997-12-03 Thread Allen K. Smith
You can also try lsattr and see if the file has been made immutable. chattr -i will take off this flag. Allen Allen Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED] IP Multicast. Turn it on and tune-in to the future. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: undeletable file

1997-12-03 Thread Adam Klein
On Wed, Dec 03, 1997 at 10:41:09AM -0600, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: Hello, I remember seeing something about this on the list awhile back, but I haven't been able to find it in the archives. I have a file that has somehow been commandeered by an undefined group, and I can't seem to remove,