And please cc to 13330-forwarded@bugs.debian.org and bcwhite@verisim.com when
replying. Thanks.
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Message-ID: <34298977.71AB894F@verisim.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 17:43:19 -0400
From: Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>
To: Debian Bugs <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: rm won't remove some files
Package: fileutils
Version: 3.16-4
I have a few files on my disk were created by filesystems problems that I
am completely unable to get rid of.
Here is what I tried to do first:
dragon:/tmp/wcsmbs# ls -l
total 3982528256
c--xrw-r-- 1 14464 35136 141, 0 Jun 17 1902 wcpcpy.o
b--sr-srwt 1 14951 14964 101, 100 Apr 10 2030 wcscat.d
br-xrws-w- 1 29791 29791 105, 116 Aug 19 2022 wcscat.o
br-sr-xr-T 1 29791 24420 116, 101 May 10 05:05 wcschr.d
br-xrw--w- 1 25710 13619 53, 51 May 5 2024 wcscmp.o
c--Srws--- 1 15160 59 49, 114 May 7 1999 wcsdup.d
dragon:/tmp/wcsmbs# rm -f *
rm: wcpcpy.o: Operation not permitted
rm: wcscat.d: Operation not permitted
rm: wcscat.o: Operation not permitted
rm: wcschr.d: Operation not permitted
rm: wcscmp.o: Operation not permitted
rm: wcsdup.d: Operation not permitted
I guess I can understand this since the inodes are garbage even though
e2fsck gives the disk a clean bill of health. So, I tried the following:
dragon:/tmp/wcsmbs# cd ..
dragon:/tmp# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
dragon:/tmp# ls -ld wcsmbs
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3072 Sep 24 17:13 wcsmbs/
dragon:/tmp# rm -d wcsmbs
rm: wcsmbs: Operation not permitted
dragon:/tmp# rm -df wcsmbs
rm: wcsmbs: Operation not permitted
According to the 'rm' man page:
-d, --directory
Remove directories with `unlink' instead of
`rmdir', and don't require a directory to be empty
before trying to unlink it. Only works for the
super-user. Because unlinking a directory causes
any files in the deleted directory to become unref
erenced, it is wise to fsck the filesystem after
doing this.
I don't see any reason why this should fail, thus the bug report. Since
it appears I'm stuck with these files until this gets fixed, please don't
hesitate to ask if I can give any more info.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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Message-ID: <342C0EA2.15526426@verisim.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 15:36:02 -0400
From: Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>
To: Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, 13330@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#13330: rm won't remove some files
> > Seems like they are immutable files. Try chattr.
>
> Okay, I officially feel like an idiot now. *WHACK* Thank you. Why didn't
> I think of that?
No luck...
dragon:/var/tmp/badfiles/wcsmbs# ll
total 3982528256
c--xrw-r-- 1 14464 35136 141, 0 Jun 17 1902 wcpcpy.o
b--sr-srwt 1 14951 14964 101, 100 Apr 10 2030 wcscat.d
br-xrws-w- 1 29791 29791 105, 116 Aug 19 2022 wcscat.o
br-sr-xr-T 1 29791 24420 116, 101 May 10 05:05 wcschr.d
br-xrw--w- 1 25710 13619 53, 51 May 5 2024 wcscmp.o
c--Srws--- 1 15160 59 49, 114 May 7 1999 wcsdup.d
dragon:/var/tmp/badfiles/wcsmbs# chattr -i *
chattr 1.10, 24-Apr-97 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
chattr: No such device while reading flags on wcpcpy.o
chattr: No such device while reading flags on wcscat.d
chattr: No such device while reading flags on wcscat.o
chattr: No such device while reading flags on wcschr.d
chattr: No such device while reading flags on wcscmp.o
chattr: No such device while reading flags on wcsdup.d
Even if it had worked, though, it doesn't fix the problem of rm not being
able to unlink a dir.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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