hello On Saturday 15 April 2006 23:14, Graham Leggett wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using a reiserfs partition mounted using Redhat Enterprise's > 2.6.9-22.0.1.EL (rebuilt), and I have files that refuse to delete:
Are there any reiserfs error messages in the system logs? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# ls -al p* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 15 20:50 partitions > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 15 20:50 pci > [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# rm -f p* > rm: cannot remove `partitions': Operation not permitted > rm: cannot remove `pci': Operation not permitted It looks as another procfs mount point, can you please do "stat -f partitions" to check that? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] proc]# pwd > /var/lib/diskless/i386/fedora-core-2/root/proc > > (The files were somehow copied from a /proc tree, they are otherwise > normal files). > > For some reason they are not deletable. The partition is mounted like > this: > > /dev/sda4 on /var type reiserfs (rw) > > I tried to find a way of running reiserfsck against the partition, > but for some reason this is impossible on a read/write filesystem. > The machine is not geographically nearby, so unmounting it is not > possible at the moment. > > Can anyone recommend a way to rescue this filesystem, or am I going > to have to make the drive of shame? > > The reiserfs-utils package I am using is reiserfs-utils-3.6.4-5. > > Regards, > Graham > -- -- Alex.
