On 2014-07-13 02:31, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2014-07-13 02:13, Anton Aylward wrote:
What you have is corrupted inodes. The 'ls' command is trying its best to interpret the random bit patterns of the inodes. Its mapping the random junk there into what *you* interpret as various status bit according to the manual page. But really they are just nonsense. That is why you cannot delete anything. It's all corrupt.
That /does/make sense.
I'm getting progress. Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # chattr = \#4047692 Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # l \#4047692 ---xr-S--t 1 2195736830 1610809728 36864 May 24 1985 #4047692* Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # rm \#4047692 Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # l \#4047692 ls: cannot access #4047692: No such file or directory Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # lsattr \#* --SDi-d-c---T--- #4049402 --S-ia--c---T--- #4066597 ---Di---cj-tT--- #4079810 -----adAcj--T--- #4083190 Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # chattr = \#* Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # lsattr \#* ---------------- #4049402 ---------------- #4066597 ---------j------ #4079810 ---------j------ #4083190 Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # l total 268 drw-rw---T 2 2225140482 1073897600 40960 Jul 13 02:50 #4048177/ d-wxrw-r-x 2 113311111 3129454 45056 Aug 18 1969 #4049358/ ---sr----T 1 821969126 1091361282 49152 May 22 1990 #4049402* drwxr-s--T 2 2166404463 2700568576 45056 May 13 1970 #4065600/ ---x--x-w- 1 79724563 239075460 40960 Dec 26 1974 #4066597* ---Sr---wt 1 1497693200 4013616054 45056 Feb 9 1902 #4079810* --w-rwxr-x 1 3529138678 2276790368 49152 Feb 18 1971 #4083190* dr--r-s--T 2 858947044 857867178 36864 Sep 10 1948 #4083819/ drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 20480 Jul 13 02:49 ./ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 4 2012 ../ Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # rmdir \#4048177/ Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # rmdir \#4049358/ Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # rmdir \#4065600/ Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # rmdir \#4083819/ Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # rm \#4049402 \#4066597 \#4079810 \#4083190 Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # l total 24 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 Jul 13 02:53 ./ drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Aug 4 2012 ../ Telcontar:/mnt/Ext/Moria2/lost+found # GOTCHA! :-)) I got the hint here: http://forums.cpanel.net/f5/cannot-delete-file-root-164270.html post number 4 asks to use lsattr. I found the rest myself. :-) I see later in the thread they say "chattr -i" worked. That apparently refers to "immutable" bit. Only some of my files had it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)