On Sunday 14 October 2001 05:26, Robert Waldner wrote: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 22:18:55 PDT, Kevin writes: > >its got nothing to do with the attribs or the perms > > > >lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on > > ./guide.it.html > > > >and i cant fsck it because im not local and cant go to single user. > >oh well, thanks for the help > > Maybe you don't need to go to single-user-mode, if you can just > unmount the partition (eg if there's nothing on it your shell depends > on)... > > Personally I'd try something like > `umount /whereever; fsck.ext2 -y -c -f -v /dev/bla; mount /whereever` > > If you have some idea about how long a fsck usually takes, you can > schedule a reboot for some time later. If the fsck and re-mount worked, > you can still cancel it. `echo "reboot" | at now+2hours`, atq and atrm > for canceling. > > cheers, > &rw
it is a directory. i was able to wipe it with no complaint. wipe -r *it* got both the directory and the text file off my machine. bob
