Hi Robert,

hallo martin,

thank you for your reply.

you are welcome.

but i tried some of your ideas already.

the point is that not even root has the _rights_ to remove the file (forced or unforced does not matter).

it has nothing to do with the file name or special chars there in (as there are no special chars).

ciao robertj

Bring the box to single-mode and try again... HTH, Martin

Hello Robert, This happend to me at least once. The only thing to do was to fsck the filesystem with the defective file. (in my case reiserfschk...beta state...only in rescue system possible...very dangerous) In my case the check-program repaired the file with the error and I could afterwards delete it. I am not certain due to what you have to do exactly, but have a look at the man pages etc. Hope you get rid of the thing. Cheers, johannes

hallo martin,

thank you for your reply. but i tried some of your ideas already.

the point is that not even root has the _rights_ to remove the file (forced or unforced does not matter).

it has nothing to do with the file name or special chars there in (as there are no special chars).

ciao robertj

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Hi,

try to execute the lsof command and see if some process is using that file. It could also happen that it has some special characters. Try to double-quote the filename, like:

rm -f "filename"

and let the shell complete its name too. Assuming you are using bash, just type the first characters and then press the "tab"-key, like:

rm -f "fi[tab] <-- this will complete the filename and add the " at

Martin Mielke wrote: the

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end.

Another __dangerous__ way is to:

rm -if *

This will interactively remove the files; that means, you must say "y" for the file to be removed. Obviously, say "no" to all the files until you reach the ofending one :-)

HTH,

Martin

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hi,

i am having some trouble of removing a file (which was written) during a crash of suse 9.0.

when i am trying to access that file (either by ls or rm or what ever) i am being told that lstat does not have the necessary rights to do so.

su-ing to root does not help either. what i can do thou is to move the parent folder (but not onto an other mounted filesystem).

any ideas how i can get rid of the file?

thx

ciao robertj

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Ok, I have to mention that I did this on SuSE 7.3, and at least I was told that reiserfsck was dangerous. But perhaps that time has passed or it was only in the case you mentioned. Just to justify myself;-) Cheers, Johannes

In a previous message, "Johannes Egerer" <jteg@gmx.de> wrote:

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(in my case reiserfschk...beta state...only in rescue system possible...very dangerous)

reiserfsck is *not* "very dangerous". If you don't run it with the --rebuild-tree option, it's very unlikely to do any harm to your system, and the tree only needs rebuilding in extreme cases of corruption. In fact, reiserfsck does a very nice job of keeping your FS in good condition afte r crashes.

It's only possible to use it on unmounted FSs (in common with other fscks ), which is why you need to boot into the rescue system to fix your main partitions.

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The Thursday 2004-01-29 at 10:07 +0100, Alexandr Malusek wrote:

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Of course, mv across filesystems is not possible.

It was true long time ago but it isn't true since then (at least for GNU mv).

Ah! I stand corrected, just tried it. Interesting :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson