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. #: ls -l total 4888 -rwxrwx--t 1 18416192 21168618 45056 2007-03-08 17:57 00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_002.txt -r-xr-x-wT 1 2617499625 1426397418 45056 1920-07-13 22:52 00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_007.txt -rw-rwSrw- 1 51446267 130941264 49152 2006-11-03 07:37 00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_015.txt -rwxrwxrwt 1 33686018 59768993 49152 1909-11-25 08:49 00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_021.txt --w----rwt 1 64588982 2634154654 49152 2007-08-14 19:50 00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_034.txt -r-----r-T 1 66500841 4060231152 49152 2007-09-19 01:13 19991001_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt ------xrw- 1 2885846505 33621835 4243456 2005-11-10 06:47 20011112_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt -r-x--xrwt 1 2214740202 33685997 49152 2004-09-10 00:51 20040116_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt ---x-w---t 1 18200553 19138330 49152 2022-08-08 13:51 20051109_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt --w-rw---x 1 93782446 2533491176 45056 2004-08-22 20:46 20060609_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt --wxrw-r-- 1 38929139 26715113 49152 2007-09-29 07:38 20061220_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt ---xr-xrwx 1 33661673 26673902 49152 2007-03-10 04:59 20061221_0000_AAM_TUI_001.txt ---xrw---t 1 30977769 989954793 49152 2004-09-06 05:47 20070117_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt -rw-rw-rwt 1 80150873 3204594410 49152 2006-12-19 14:22 20070308_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt --w-r-x--T 1 37617711 58786132 49152 2007-04-07 21:02 20070308_0000_AAM_TUI_002.txt -rwxr-xrwt 1 3137470985 16843449 49152 2012-03-25 11:06 20070419_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt ----r-Srwt 1 159806442 268563177 49152 2007-08-07 23:15 20070607_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt None of these files can be deleted or modified. None of the user/group IDs is valid. Root cannot change any of the attributes. 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). Thanks in advance, Roland
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.