On Tue July 17 2007 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400
>
> Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000
> >
> > Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Frank McCormick wrote:
> > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is
> > > > dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found.
> > > >
> > > > No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo  -
> > > > chown reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group.
> > > >
> > > > Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ?
> > >
> > > Try and mv the file else where then delete, or chown the file to
> > > your user then try and delete.
> >
> >     Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not
> > permitted. The file is also dated 1931 !
>
>    This is the output of ls -l
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l *
> ---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko

I'm not sure if this will work because I have never seen anything like that. 
Can you chown the file to root:root? Does rm -rdf not work?

> Weird huh!

It is!


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