On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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! > -- > Peter Galbraith, research scientist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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!!!!!@
