Undeletable files

[Roland Bock]

Justin,

thanks for the hint!

Yes, some of them are immutable, e.g.

00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_007.txt Synchronous_Directory_Updates, Immutable, 
No_Atime, Compression_Raw_Access

Others aren't, e.g.

00000000_0000_AAM_TUI_002.txt Secure_Deletion, Append_Only, No_Atime, 
Compression_Raw_Access, Top_of_Directory_Hierarchie

Got rid of them by:
chattr -i -a *; rm *


Thanks again,

Roland

Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Roland Bock wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> an e2fsck-run left a few files sprinkled over the file system which 
>> seem to be undeletable. Although the FS is mounted RW, even root does 
>> not seem to be able to delete them.
>>
> 
> [ .. ]
> 
>> For example:
>> #: rm 20011112_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt
>> rm: cannot remove `20011112_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt': Operation not 
>> permitted
>>
>> #: chown root:root 20051109_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt
>> chown: changing ownership of `20051109_0000_AAM_TUI_000.txt': 
>> Operation not permitted
>>
>> #: chmod a+w 20061221_0000_AAM_TUI_001.txt
>> chmod: changing permissions of `20061221_0000_AAM_TUI_001.txt': 
>> Operation not permitted
>>
>>
>> Any idea of how to get rid of these files? I have about a 100 million 
>> files on that file system. "About" 30.000 are in such a state as 
>> described above. The rest behaves normally (can be modified, deleted, 
>> etc).
> 
> Either the FS is damaged or the files are chattr'd +i, lsattr -l filename.
> 
> Are they immutable by chance?
> 
> Justin.
>