Re: Help..can't delete broken links, directories et all!!
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Roddie Rod wrote:
> Anyway, now I a gig or more of broken symlinks, directories and files.
> Most are in /usr/lost+found but some are in /usr/lib/* and /usr/man.
> Problem is I can't delete them. I have tried to rm -f, delete using
> midnight commander and renaming the files! Nothing works is tells me
> operation not permitted. I've tried to chown and chmod nothing!
Sounds like that partition has been mounted read-only, possibly because of
errors that fsck can't fix automatically. What happens when you type
"mount"?
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