Cannot delete stubborn files

Jack Stone antennex at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 4 17:09:43 PDT 2006


>From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
>To: Jack Stone <antennex at hotmail.com>
>CC: list at museum.rain.com, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
>Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 20:06:25 -0400
>
>On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 06:57:27PM -0500, Jack Stone wrote:
> > >From: James Long <list at museum.rain.com>
> > >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, Jack Stone <antennex at hotmail.com>
> > >Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
> > >Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 14:57:52 -0700
> > >
> > >> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:42:16 -0500
> > >> From: "Jack Stone" <antennex at hotmail.com>
> > >> Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
> > >> To: rat.carvalho at gmail.com, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > >> Message-ID: <BAY106-F150E39CA3837EAAF0DE188CC970 at phx.gbl>
> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
> > >>
> > >> >From: "Ricardo Carvalho" <rat.carvalho at gmail.com>
> > >> >To: "Jack Stone" <antennex at hotmail.com>
> > >> >Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
> > >> >Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:39:05 -0300
> > >> >
> > >> >This occurred to me once, I simply booted the system in single user
> > >mode
> > >> >and
> > >> >removed the file.
> > >> >
> > >>
> > >> Nope, that didn't work either..... really strangest undeletes I've 
>ever
> > >> encounted.
> > >>
> > >> THX
> > >> Jack
> > >
> > >Have you posted the output of ls -lo (problem filename) ?
> > >
> >
> > I have not posted it, but here it is for the 2 files:
> > dr1# ls -lo *.pm
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  - 5 Jun  4 13:58 Hostname.pm
> > -rwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  - 0 Jun  6  2004 Syslog.pm
> >
> > HTH....
>
>Unmount (or drop to single-user mode) and fsck -f the drive to fix the
>filesystem corruption.
>
>Kris

That was already done long before I posted the problem as I mentioned in an 
earlier post of this thread.

Jack

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