Subject: Re: unable to delete file?
From: FeLoNiouS MoNK (codered@gci.net)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 08:43:58 AKDT
im sure its a stupid question but did you put it in background.. since you
dont remember what you pushed maybe you Ctrl + Z .. and left it runnin in
the background..*shrug* .. thats prolly not it but sometimes the obvious
evades the smart!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Justin Dieters" <enderak@gci.net>
To: "Aklug" <Aklug@aklug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 7:52 AM
Subject: unable to delete file?
>
> 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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