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Date:      Mon, 23 Apr 2007 03:12:53 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Don O'Neil <don@buylv.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's
Message-ID:  <20070423071253.GA74834@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <000b01c78574$86182ba0$0300020a@mickey>
References:  <000b01c78574$86182ba0$0300020a@mickey>

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On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:56:31PM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote:
> I had a crash on a disk array last week that was severe enough that fsck
> wouldn't fix it, even in single user mode. So, I was forced to suck off the
> good data, and restore the bad stuff from backups.
> 
> However there are 2 directories that contain files/directories which have
> bogus user & group ID's that the system just won't let me do anything to. I
> can delete them, cant rename them, cant move them, cant chmod/chown, cant
> cat to them, nothing... I just get "Operation not permitted".
> 
> Here's a sample of one of them: 
> 
> ---xr----x  1 2761022747  1016642816  0 Apr 19 15:35 Video
> d--s---rw-  2 3251161791  726015594  512 Apr 19 15:41 .shrc
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of these files?
> 
> I've done an fsck from single user mode and that doesn't come up with
> anything. Short of copying all the data over to a new volume sans these
> files and then reformatting the old volume and then moving the good files
> back what can I do?

It's unlikely to be due to the uid/gids, do a ls -lo to check for the
schg flag (man chflags).

Kris



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