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From: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
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Subject: Re: Strange filesystem problems
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Il 07/21/10 14:00, A. Wright ha scritto:
>
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>
>> Let's say I have directory "foo"; under "foo" I have "bar" which keeps
>> thousands of files (in several subdirectories).
>>
>> I do:
>>
>> %cd /xyzzy/foo
>> %pwd
>> xyzzy/foo
>> %rm -fR bar
>> %pwd
>> pwd: .: Permission denied
>
> At this point, I would suspect that you may have the UCHG flag
> set. What do:
> ls -lod /xyzzy/foo/bar
> and
> ls -lo /xyzzy/foo/bar
> say?

Nope.
ls says no flags are there; btw I'm repeatedly creating "bar", so I'm 
sure I'm not setting any flags on it or anything therein.
Besides, would'nt that prevent rm from working?

  bye & Thanks
	av.