Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-11 Thread Carlo U. Segre
I had a bunch of these bad files when I tried to install the picons package. The installation just froze up and when I tried to remove the package, a number of files were left over. In a color-ls they showed up as yellow with the initial attribute as "c" and some "S" bits set as well. Directories

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-09 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
I have the same problem. I have been running Debian 1.3.0 on a 2.0.30 kernel since April; before that I was running Slackware and this file has probably been around since then. Last fall when it was a Slackware system I tried running some 2.1.x kernels for a short time, probably 2.1.1x or 2.1.2x

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Brandon Mitchell
> ext2fs_close: Attempt to write to filesystem opened read-only Have you confirmed that the partition is mounted read write? Try to make another file in the same direcotry. Otherwise, I'd saylesystem is extremely corrupted and you probably need to recreate that filesystem and reinstall the

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
This is one for the books! Clint Adams wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > > > > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > > > total 269488144 > > > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > > >

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The pre-release to 2.0.31, but I have 2.0.30 on hand. > The mess might have occurred when I tried 2.1.X kernels to get my IDE PD-CD > to work, which is why I'm currently using 2.0.31-pre-release. The kernels in the recent 2.1.4X past had serious ext

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Rob Browning wrote: > What kernel version are you running? The pre-release to 2.0.31, but I have 2.0.30 on hand. The mess might have occurred when I tried 2.1.X kernels to get my IDE PD-CD to work, which is why I'm currently using 2.0.31-pre-release. Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Rob Browning
Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've tried stuff like What kernel version are you running? -- Rob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Peter S Galbraith
"Colin R. Telmer" wrote: > As root can you chmod 700 drafts and then try rm -f drafts? I've tried stuff like bash-2.00# chmod 666 drafts chmod: drafts: Operation not permitted bash-2.00# touch drafts2; chmod 777 drafts2; mv drafts2 drafts ; rm drafts mv: cannot move `drafts2' to `drafts':

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Clint Adams
> On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > > total 269488144 > > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > > > I can't delete it! You're going to need to use debugfs to get

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > > total 269488144 > > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > > > I can't delete it! >

Re: File impossible to delete

1997-08-08 Thread Colin R. Telmer
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > Somehow, I got a corrupted file on my system: > > bash-2.00# ls -l /root/Mail/ > total 269488144 > c---r- 8240 8224 8224 32, 48 Aug 2 1995 drafts > > I can't delete it! > > bash-2.00# chown root drafts > chown: drafts: Operati