[offtopic] undeletable file on corrupted ext2 partion

Stephen Beynon (stephen@askone.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 4 Jun 1997 23:04:13 +0000 (GMT)

I have a ext2 partion that corrupted due to a hardware fault (since
rectified :) - but I am left with a file that has been corrupted so that
it looks like a symbolic link.

rm returns
rm: /bin/red: Operation not permitted

when I try to rm the file as root - should this be possible ?

e2fsck 1.10 claimed to have repaired the filesystem, and does not report
any errors when I force it to run now.

I am guessing that this is more of a problem with e2fsck rather than the
kernel drivers so sorry for the off topic post.

now where did I leave the filesystem editor :(

Stephen