Well, that's not fair. That ain't my FS, but I've been in that hole
myself (even done it deliberately just to annoy an extremely stupid
sysop).
It is quite possible for ext2 to get into a state where it creates
files that can't be deleted. I don't mean "immutable" - i.e. no hidden
bit tricks. Really, honestly can't be deleted. The same is true of
solaris, btw. The above snatch looks familiar to anyone who has seen
a corrupt FS on solaris!
The only remedy I have found is:
1) make a new directory.
2) move all the GOOD files out of the old directory into the new.
3) rename the old directory to something silly. Rename the new
directory to the old one.
Then forget about it.
Sure, actually twiddling the fS structure myself might do it, but I
know how to avoid introducing bugs into a system, and low level
twiddling isn't it!
(I last munged my FS this way after trying a couple of hours running my
PCI bus at 83MHz/2)
> -Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net)
Peter ptb@it.uc3m.es
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