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Re: utterly unremoveable file



Thus spake Rick Pasotto:
> How is it possible to create (actually I want to know how to remove) a
> seemingly unremoveable file. Even when logged in as root and with the
> file system mounted on a different mount point *nothing* seems to get
> rid of it. Not 'rm', not 'mv', not 'cat /dev/null >', not chown, not
> chmod. I can tar the directory and then untar it elsewhere, remove the
> file from that directory, create a new tar file, rename the original
> directory and untar the new tar file but I can't remove the old
> directory since it still contains the offending file.

out of curiosity, what does stat say about the file?

stat filename

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Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>

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choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. - Hans J. Morgenthau



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