Re: [SLUG] file that can't be deleted by root

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 22:40:55 EDT


On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Daniel Holth wrote:

> Hello. My reiserfs root partition has a file: /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 that I
> can't seem to wipe. (I've just moved the parent directory to something
> innocuous so it doesn't prevent X server zero from starting.)
>
> root@bluefish:/var/tmp/X12-unix# ls
> ls: X0: Permission denied
> root@bluefish:/var/tmp/X12-unix# stat X0
> stat: cannot stat `X0': Permission denied
> root@bluefish:/var/tmp/X12-unix# rm -rf X0
> rm: cannot remove `X0': Permission denied
> root@bluefish:/var/tmp/X12-unix#
>
> It looks like filesystem corruption but I wonder if any of you have
> other ideas. Kernel 2.4.21.

That'd be my guess. Boot media, reiserfsck (or whatever it's called), you
know the drill.

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