I had a similar thing happen once. I was unable to access certain files &
directories even as root. What filesystem are you using? I was running
Reiserfs. I ran reiserfsck on the filesystem in question. The filesystem
had to be unmounted. It found several errors on the filesystem. I then
had to run reiserfsck with another option... sigh... right now I cannot
recall the option. It was the option to fix any errors found.
Once I did that, it fixed the errors. Once the filesystem was mounted, I
was able to access the previously, inaccessible files and directories.
Rick
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:22:19 -0700, "P.T. (Nevada)"
I had a system freeze and had to reboot the computer. When the
computer came back up, I was missing some sub-directories of the directory /pictures. Using Suse 8.1.
I tried chmod +x and it did not help. I have also tried chown and chgrp without sucess.
Here is a copy of doing a dir of /pictures. I am also unable to access a couple of directories under /pictures/raw, which gives the same permission denied.
ls: kids: permission denied ls: download: permission denied total 1 drwxr-xr-x 8(user) users 168 2003-07-13 17:12 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 688 2003-07-13 17.19 .. drwxr-xr-x 10 (user) users 248 2003-01-22 19:54 numbered drwxr-xr-x 12 (user) users 368 2003-01-22 19:44 raw drwxr-xr-x 2 (user) users 528 2003-07-13 13:56 temp
I am not sure, but I am thinking that the '.' and '..' are the directories I am unable to access.
If I try to create a new directory of kids/download, it gives me 'access denied to /pictures/kids/download.
Anyone had an idea how I can get these directory back so I can access them?
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