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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