Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-19 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 05:27, Frank McCormick wrote: > The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is > dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. > > No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown > reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown

Re: undeleteable file (SOLVED)

2007-07-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 08:38:12 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:05 +1000 > Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is the output of "lsattr" ? It could be that it has the > > immutable bit set. To fix this, use chattr(1): > > > >

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:40:05 +1000 Cameron Hutchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is the output of ls -l > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * > >---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nfor

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:37:38 -0600 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > > >> > >> Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not > >> permitted. The file is also dated 1931 ! > >> > > > >This is the output of ls -

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:36:49 -0700 Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue July 17 2007 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 > > > > > > > > > > > > Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ? > > > > > > > > Try and mv the file else where then delete, or chow

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 > > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 > > > > Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jul 17, 2007, at 8:52 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: Can't move it...can't chown it. It just tells me operation not permitted. The file is also dated 1931 ! This is the output of ls -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * ---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:40:05PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is the output of ls -l > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * > >---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko > > Wh

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the output of ls -l >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lost+found/#573699/drivers/i2c/busses$ ls -l * >---s---r-t 1 993200132 3086322235 0 1931-09-13 15:22 i2c-nforce2.ko What is the output of "lsattr" ? It could be that it has the immutable bit set. To fi

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 > Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is > > > dying) left an undele

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 Julian De Marchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is > > dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. > > > > No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- su

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Julian De Marchi
Frank McCormick wrote: The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group. Anybody have any ideas to get

undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Frank McCormick
The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect the drive is dying) left an undeletable file in lost+found. No combination of rm or shred will kill it, sudo or no- sudo - chown reports its owned by an unknown owner and unknown group. Anybody have any ideas to get rid of it ? Thanks --