-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have a Linux based multimedia box (not openSUSE), to which I connect via telnet. It has an external hard disk via usb, formatted as ext2 (2, not 3 nor 4). It runs kernel 2.4.21-xfs, and BusyBox v1.01 (2006.11.30-16:43+0000). As the disk is connected via usb, I can, when not in use, connect it to my openSUSE machine. I use that sometimes for maintenance of the disk. Other times, I use the fsck facility on the machine itself. After one of these runs, I found some files on the lost+found directory; I copied them to my openSUSE machine via ftp, for later inspection, then attempted to delete them on the machine. FTP (with 'mc') deleted most, but not all. Looking via telnet, I see very strange permissions: [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# ls -l - ---xr-S--t 1 -2099230 16108097 36864 May 24 1985 #4047692 drw-rw---T 2 -2069826 10738976 40960 Jul 11 2036 #4048177 d-wxrw-r-x 2 11331111 3129454 45056 Aug 18 1969 #4049358 - ---sr----T 1 82196912 10913612 49152 May 22 1990 #4049402 drwxr-s--T 2 -2128562 -1594398 45056 May 13 1970 #4065600 - ---x--x-w- 1 79724563 23907546 40960 Dec 26 1974 #4066597 - ---Sr---wt 1 14976932 -2813512 45056 Feb 9 1902 #4079810 - --w-rwxr-x 1 -7658286 -2018176 49152 Feb 18 1971 #4083190 dr--r-s--T 2 85894704 85786717 36864 Sep 10 1948 #4083819 [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# rmdir \#4065600/ rmdir: `#4065600/': Operation not permitted [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# I'm not familiar with those permissions. But I can not delete them. I can not change the permissions either: [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# rmdir \#4065600/ rmdir: `#4065600/': Operation not permitted [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# chmod u+r+w \#4065600/ chmod: #4065600/: Operation not permitted [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# chown root \#4065600/ chown: #4065600/: Operation not permitted [root@Moria:/usb/lost+found]# The current permissions are: drwxr-s--T 2 -2128562 -1594398 45056 May 13 1970 #4065600 How can I delete those files? What means the 'T' and 't' attributes? Ideas? Of course, I'll try, when the device is not needed, to connect the disk to openSUSE and try from here, to see if things are different :-? - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlPBqEsACgkQtTMYHG2NR9X/fQCfTclCwuYIb4IoGKYxePUF00OZ OiwAoI0qyHBMj+cPPLar7TXsDPiUgKXa =vxWe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org