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John, I had the same sort of problem a couple of months ago. I was unable to delete some files even as root. It turned out, I had developed a problem with the filesystem on that particular partition. I use reiserfs. Somehow, the files in question got crosslinked. Anders Johansson pointed me the direction of learning this. I ran reiserfsck on my /home partition. It found several problems. I re-ran reiserfsck with the '--rebuild-tree' option. It fixed the problems and I was then able to delete the files in question. So, I would run the fsck of whatever filesystem you use on the partition in question. See if it reports any errors. Rick On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 12:54, John Pettigrew wrote:
I have some files that I cannot delete, even as root.
They started their life as part of my Palm device's backups, being created by the JPilot backup plugin. However, after a Palm crash during a sync, I was left with a "cannot delete ... files, please delete manually" error. When trying, I get permission denied to do an ls -la on these directories as root, and my filer shows the owner and group as -1, and the permissions for each file as "---,---,---/---", which I suspect results from the same error. Most of the files were deleted OK, but there are about 6 left in each directory that I can't get rid of.
Any ideas?
TiA
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