Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 09:49:32AM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> writes:
> > Something trampled the parent directory or its attached data structures.
>
> It appears to be the two inodes, not the parent directory, that got
> trampled.

The problem is that it's fairly unlikely that two inodes in two 
different directories got trashed, and nothing else.

Mike Stone