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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 17:54:34 GMT
John Pettigrew
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?
Can you move them? An easy trick is to move them to a good directory, then recursively delete the directory. mc makes this easy to do. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation