Googling for cannot files/directories from / seems fruitless, everything being directed either deeper or to things I tried. This summarizes most of what I have tried: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] ... md1 : active raid1 sdb9[3] sda9[2] 10650988 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU] bitmap: 0/163 pages [0KB], 32KB chunk # tune2fs -l /dev/md1 tune2fs 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) Filesystem volume name: 09suse131 Last mounted on: /mnt Filesystem UUID: 057eab05-ebb3-4bfe-8a08-4dc60cc044d3 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype extent flex_bg sparse_super huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 667648 Block count: 5325494 Reserved block count: 266274 Free blocks: 2939203 Free inodes: 528883 First block: 0 Block size: 2048 Fragment size: 2048 Reserved GDT blocks: 512 Blocks per group: 16384 Fragments per group: 16384 Inodes per group: 2048 Inode blocks per group: 128 Flex block group size: 16 Filesystem created: Sat Apr 12 01:43:08 2014 Last mount time: Sun Sep 20 16:20:30 2015 Last write time: Sun Sep 20 16:27:31 2015 Mount count: 2 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Sun Sep 20 16:09:43 2015 Check interval: 0 (<none>) Lifetime writes: 17 GB Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: half_md4 Directory Hash Seed: 2c8dc3c9-9c5e-4e8d-805c-6d5f5b85f62a Journal backup: inode blocks # mount | grep /dev/md1 /dev/md1 on /mnt type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered) # ls -l /mnt/out -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 120 Apr 16 2014 /mnt/out # lsattr /mnt/out -------------e-- /mnt/out # rm /mnt/out rm: remove regular file /mnt/out? rm: cannot remove /mnt/out: Permission denied # rm -f /mnt/out rm: cannot remove /mnt/out: Permission denied Same/similar happens with two non-standard (non-FHS) 0775 directories and three 644 files, and trying to delete any of them using MC. It also happens when it's the running 13.1 / filesystem. Forced fsck didn't help. IIRC, this filesystem was originally EXT3, later updated to EXT4 following some cmdline instructions found Googling. Short of backup, delete stubborn entries from backup, format the filesystem, and restore, can anyone suggest any relatively user friendly way to remove these stubborn files? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org