Re: Undeletable File Causing Massive Headaches

[Eliot Landrum <eliot@landrum.cx>]

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 I said, this is pretty much driving me
insane.

Eliot Landrum
eliot@landrum.cx


On Sat, 25 Dec 1999, Ethan Benson wrote:

> 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 not mounted as / and many many other things that people
> >have suggested. Here is what i get when root does "rm -Rf
> >/lib/libext2fs.so.2.4":
> 
> sounds like a immutable file, even though those permissions are 
> totally wrong that is irrelevant to root, if you are getting 
> operation not permitted for every action on it i would suspect 
> immutability, try
> 
> lsattr /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4
> 
> if you see sometihng like this:
> 
> ---i--- 	/lib/libext2fs.so.2.4
> 
> then its immutable, run
> 
> chattr -i /lib/libext2fs.so.2.4
> 
> then try and remove it.
> 
> how it got that way i would sure like to know though...
> 
> 
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> Ethan Benson
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