Re: root should be able to do anything... right???
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> Ron Rademaker wrote:
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> >
> > 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:
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> 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:
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> > > 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):
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> debugfs -w -R "rm /root/Mail/drafts" /dev/sda3
>
> Thanks everybody!
> --
> Peter Galbraith, research scientist <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>
> Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
> P.O. Box 1000, Mont-Joli Qc, G5H 3Z4 Canada 418-775-0852 - FAX 418-775-0546
>
It worked!!!!!@
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