Files with *strange* permissions

Hi there, I'm facing quite a bad problem here im my Linux Box, and I'd like to try a bit more before I give up, format the HD and reinstall it all... Last tuesday I had to shutdown Linux because I had to do some work on Win98, unfortunately... The shutdown procedure worked fine, I worked all

Re: Files with *strange* permissions

Guilherme writes that he has encounted files he cannot delete. partial quote: Now, I'm left with one final problem... the files and dirs left on /lost+found can't be chown'd, chmod'd or erased... all of them (except for one) have the first permission bit (when doing ls -a -l) either b, c or

Re: Files with *strange* permissions

Guilherme writes that he has encounted files he cannot delete. (...) For the unalterable files, lsattr gives ext2fs atrributes. chattr will change these attributes, which include immutable. This will usually help remove unalterable files. The file system debugger also will do this job.

Re: Files with *strange* permissions

I had the same problem where I have two files in /usr/doc/mount/ that were block devices on the README.Debain.gz. They way I got rid of the files is to go into debugfs. Be careful with this util. You can use debugfs' rm and it will clear the inode. Problem solved. Hope it helps... --Jay

Re: Files with *strange* permissions

Guilherme writes that he has encounted files he cannot delete. (...) The file system debugger also will do this job. OK... this worked fine, the files aren't there anymore! Now, when I rebooted e2fsck complained about the file too big thing again... what can it be? Also... what could have

Re: Files with *strange* permissions

I'm facing quite a bad problem here im my Linux Box, and I'd like to try a bit more before I give up, format the HD and reinstall it all... Last tuesday I had to shutdown Linux because I had to do some work on Win98, unfortunately... The shutdown procedure worked fine, I worked all