Re: undeleteable file

[Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca>]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:05 +1000
Cameron Hutchison <lists@xdna.net> wrote:

> Frank McCormick <fmccormick@videotron.ca> wrote:
> 
> >   This is the output of ls -l
> 
> >frank@debian:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l *
> >---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko
> 
> What is the output of "lsattr" ? It could be that it has the immutable
> bit set. To fix this, use chattr(1):
> 

   Bingo. 

This is what lsattr said:

frank@debian:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ lsattr
--S--a-Ac-Z-Ej--T- ./i2c-nforce2.ko

And this allowed me to remove it:

 chattr -S -a -A -c  *


Now to run another file system check.

Thanks and cheers!

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