Re: Undeletable files

[Roland Bock <rbock eudoxos de>]

Justin,

thanks for the hint!

Yes, some of them are immutable, e.g.

00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_007.txt Synchronous_Directory_Updates, Immutable, 
No_Atime, Compression_Raw_Access

Others aren't, e.g.

00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_002.txt Secure_Deletion, Append_Only, No_Atime, 
Compression_Raw_Access, Top_of_Directory_Hierarchie

Got rid of them by:
chattr -i -a *; rm *


Thanks again,

Roland

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Roland Bock wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > an e2fsck-run left a few files sprinkled over the file system which 
> > seem to be undeletable. Although the FS is mounted RW, even root does 
> > not seem to be able to delete them.
>
> [ .. ]
>
> > For example:
> > #: rm 20011112_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt
> > rm: cannot remove `20011112_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt': Operation not 
> > permitted
> >
> > #: chown root:root 20051109_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt
> > chown: changing ownership of `20051109_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt': 
> > Operation not permitted
> >
> > #: chmod a+w 20061221_0000_AAM_TUI_001.txt
> > chmod: changing permissions of `20061221_0000_AAM_TUI_001.txt': 
> > Operation not permitted
> >
> >
> > Any idea of how to get rid of these files? I have about a 100 million 
> > files on that file system. "About" 30.000 are in such a state as 
> > described above. The rest behaves normally (can be modified, deleted, 
> > etc).
>
> Either the FS is damaged or the files are chattr'd +i, lsattr -l filename.
>
> Are they immutable by chance?
>
> Justin.