Hans du Plooy writes:
On Monday 10 October 2005 10:41, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Even as root, if you are not able to delete, did you check the permissions of the file and its containing directory?
Yes, the directory is perfectly fine, same as the others: drwx------ 4 hansdp users 176 2005-10-10 09:55 .User-Lists.SuSE-SLES-e.2005
There are more files/directory in the above mentioned directory, which are readable as normal, it's this the two files I mentioned in my earlier post.
Check your /var/log/messages file for error messages from ReiserFS. I've encountered this problem before and it turned out to be bad blocks on the hard drive. I solved the problem by rebooting, and then renaming the parent directory to something else, restoring that directory from backup, and then deleting the entire directory. In my case, I had a ton of messages like the following in my log: Sep 24 05:09:57 poopoo kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 914593. Fsck? Sep 24 05:09:57 poopoo kernel: ReiserFS: hda2: warning: vs-13070: reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [219823 219855 0x0 SD] -Ti -- Ti Kan