Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
Ron Rademaker wrote:
>
> Last week I've send a mail about a weird file, that should be a directory
> but it was a character device. (/usr/X11R6/include/X11/fonts). It also had
> weird permissions:
>
> c---r----- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts
>
> Now I'm trying to remove this file, the system won't allow me (yes
> ofcourse I'm root). I've also tried rm -f.
> I've tried to chown the 'file'/'character device' to root and a chmod, the
> only thing I get to see is Operation not permitted.
>
> Any suggestions???
>From my mailing list archive:
To: schizo@debian.org (Clint Adams)
cc: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: File impossible to delete <Solved!>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 15:20:49 -0400
From: Peter S Galbraith <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
This is one for the books!
Clint Adams wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system:
> > >
> > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/
> > > total 269488144
> > > c---r----- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts
> > >
> > > I can't delete it!
>
> You're going to need to use debugfs to get rid of it.
This worked (with /dev/sda3 mounted as the root filesystem):
debugfs -w -R "rm /root/Mail/drafts" /dev/sda3
Thanks everybody!
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Peter Galbraith, research scientist <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
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