On 26-Jul-2000 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Debians, > > I goofed up a little while ago and connected two SCSI devices with the > same ID. I've cleaned up the mess, but now I have a number of files > in /home/lost+found that I can't seems to remove. Not even as root! > > Typical output of ls -l on that directory looks like: > > b--s----wx 1 49439 5209 172, 30 Jan 21 1978 #53340 > brws-wxr-- 1 24240 453 38, 90 Jul 7 1924 #53353 > b--s---r-x 1 11001 2127 185, 124 Jun 12 1945 #53354 > s-ws--s-wx 1 59857 23392 4294967295 Mar 22 1991 #53364 > c-w--w---- 1 55518 35812 72, 84 Jan 2 1970 #53375 > c--Srwxr-- 1 42739 61328 117, 78 Oct 1 1922 #53402 > s-wSrws--t 1 2688 55369 4294967295 Nov 26 1973 #53422 > c-----x-w- 1 15392 29539 115, 99 Sep 10 2028 #53443 > br-Sr-Sr-x 1 14373 8224 116, 104 Feb 11 1995 #53445 > c---r----- 1 24892 27504 32, 102 Aug 26 2027 #53448 > c-----x-w- 1 15392 29539 115, 99 Sep 10 2028 #53475 > c--xrwS--- 1 9285 9533 36, 87 Apr 8 1989 #53479 > > Totally weird, that is. I've moved the original and created a new > lost+found with the same owner.group and permissions as the original > but would like to get rid of the gunk above. Any ideas how? > > I've tried chown'ing and chmod'ing, but all I get is > > chown: <filename>: Operation not permitted > > Trying to rm -rf gives > > rm: cannot unlink `<filename>': Operation not permitted
They probably have the immutable attribute set. Remove it with chattr.
