Subject: unable to delete file?
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 07:52:40 AKDT
I have a 0-byte file that I can't delete or change at all. I made it by
going into vi, but then I pressed a wrong key (not sure what I did) so I
exited and was going to delete the file and start over, but not the file
is write-protected and I can't delete it or chmod or anything, not even
as root.
The ls -l line looks like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 enderak users 0 Jul 9 22:25 test
I did notice that for some reason it says July 9, but it was created on
July 15, and I know the date is set correctly on my system.
When I try to delete it I get "rm: cannot unlink `test': Operation not
permitted" and when I try to chmod +w it I get "chmod: changing
permissions of `test': Operation not permitted"
The filesystem is ext3.
Anyknow what might have happened, and how I could get rid of this file?
It's not like it's taking up space, but it's still annoying! :)
Thanks,
Justin
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