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Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
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> Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 14:42:16 -0500
> From: "Jack Stone" <antennex@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
> To: rat.carvalho@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <BAY106-F150E39CA3837EAAF0DE188CC970@phx.gbl>
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> >From: "Ricardo Carvalho" <rat.carvalho@gmail.com>
> >To: "Jack Stone" <antennex@hotmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: Cannot delete stubborn files
> >Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 15:39:05 -0300
> >
> >This occurred to me once, I simply booted the system in single user mode 
> >and
> >removed the file.
> >
> 
> Nope, that didn't work either..... really strangest undeletes I've ever 
> encounted.
> 
> THX
> Jack

Have you posted the output of ls -lo (problem filename) ?