Strange disk problems - file dates out of wack
A server in my department has suddenly created (or altered) some files and
I cannot figure out how to remove them. Below is the a part of the
original note sent to me and I have tried various attempts to remove the
files as weel with no avail. I even went to the point of creating a user
with uid 28757 but that did not help either. One thing that isn't
mentioned below is that when the I tried to remove the files the kernel
stated "operation not permitted" rather than the usual permissions stuff.
Any ideas how I can get rid of these files?
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Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations
School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219
<mailto:telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
<http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca>
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:29:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "James G. MacKinnon" <jgm@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
To: "Colin R. Telmer" <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca>
Cc: "James G. Mackinnon" <jgm@doug.econ.queensu.ca>,
polasek@qed.econ.queensu.ca
Subject: Re: frisch
On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
> Unmounted /home without any problems and ran e2fsck with the "check for
> bad blocks" and "force" options. However, the disk seems to be fine.
> Strange.
Here are the key parts of the original note:
There are several directories that are claimed (by du) to be absurdly big:
501597058 ./reevesj/.netscape/cache/13
634965987 .
1017117464 ./reevesj/.netscape/cache
1017117572 ./reevesj/.netscape
1017168521 ./reevesj
Of course, those numbers are not correct!
Looking more closely at /reevesj/.netscape/cache, one finds:
br--r-srwx 1 28787 29728 73, 60 May 21 2025 07
Notice the date and the permissions! Whatever this is, I cannot remove
it, even using "rm -f", as root! I also cannot change the permissions.
Then, within the directory /reevesj/.netscape/cache/13, one finds:
c---rwxr-t 1 24942 28192 60, 62 Jan 25 2026 cache340259B30115B9F
pr-s-wxr-- 1 31558 11396 0 Jan 13 1983 cache340259B30125B9F.gif
p-ws-wx-wx 1 6019 23682 0 Jan 31 1940 cache343150330010C49.gif
Notice the dates! Again, it seems to be impossible to remove these or
change the permissions.
Cheers, James.
James G. MacKinnon Department of Economics
phone: 613 545-2293 Queen's University
Fax: 613 545-6668 Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Email: jgm@qed.econ.queensu.ca K7L 3N6
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