Timothy Reaves wrote:
> 
> Statux wrote:
> 
> >>>     After some hard drive corruption (due to a crash) I have several files
> >>> that look like:
> >>
> >
> > This file is marked as a block special file which only root can remove.
> > You can try doing 'chmod 0664 media' (with the leading 0) and see what
> > happens... but if a crash changed a bunch of files over to block special..
> > yer simplest solution is to toss em (as root) and forget about it ;)
> >
> > Why did they become block special files? <shrug> note the major and minor
> > numbers tho.. and the user:group settings. Looks like data corruption.
> > Just toss em ;)
> >
> > Again, only root can manipulate files like this :)
> >
> >
> 
> no good:
> 
> [root@double treaves]# whoami
> root
> [root@double treaves]# chmod 0664 media
> chmod: media: Operation not permitted
> [root@double treaves]# chmod 0664 .starteam
> chmod: .starteam: Operation not permitted
> [root@double treaves]#
> 

Have you tried over writing them and then deleting or using rm -f?

-- 
Regards,
Greg Martin
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