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

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Sun Sep 14 2003 - 23:04:37 EDT


On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 22:14:08 -0400
Daniel Holth <dholth@fastmail.fm> 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.

e[23]fs has lsattr and chattr - does reiser have something like that?
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