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forgive my ignorance, but I'm not understanding whats going wrong here
...
essentially a large file that I own I can't delete...
why do I not have permission to delete this file???

[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso
rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chmod 777 rcj.iso
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso
rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ ls -l
total 423972
-rwxrwxrwx    1 rcj      xcdroast 433717248 Oct 21 10:39 rcj.iso
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ chown rcj.rcj rcj.iso
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm rcj.iso
rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$ rm -f rcj.iso
rm: cannot remove `rcj.iso': Permission denied
[rcj@Merak2 Archive]$


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Russell Johns
D-10 Nuclear Systems Design and Analysis Group
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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