Re: undeletable file
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 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 ownership:
>
> 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: Operation not permitted
> leisure# rm fstobdf
> leisure# mv fstobdf fstobdf.1
> mv: cannot move `fstobdf' to `fstobdf.1': Operation not permitted
>
> I have no idea how the file's ownership got this way, or how to
> remove it. I haven't tried going to single-user mode yet; I'm on
> a remote connection to this box.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --ken
>
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