Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:16:00 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, don@buylv.com Subject: Re: Unable to delete files/directories - bogus user/group ID's Message-ID: <200704230116.02849.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <000901c78574$5f1990c0$0300020a@mickey> References: <000901c78574$5f1990c0$0300020a@mickey>
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On Sunday 22 April 2007, Don O'Neil said: > 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? > > Any assistance would be appreciated. I'd also like to thank > everyone who browses this group and regularly posts responses... > Without you guys some of us would never get the help and knowledge > we need! Thanks in advance! Try doing: chflags -R noschg directory or chflags noschg file See: man(1) chflags Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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