[rm -rf fails]

[Marcel Kunath]

Yeah there are inode errors. I can't find that posting on colmisc. I hope
there is a way to fix this without reformatting...

> > "Marcel Kunath"
<kunathma@pilot.msu.edu>
wrote: > > Have this annoying problem. Not sure what caused it.
> >
> > mail:/etc # chown root.root /usr/share/doc/packages/mailman/*
> > chown: getting attributes of `/usr/share/doc/packages/mailman/README.SuSE':
> > mail:/etc # chmod a+w /usr/share/doc/packages/mailman/
> > mail:/etc # rm -rf /usr/share/doc/packages/mailman
> > rm: cannot remove `/usr/share/doc/packages/mailman/TODO': Permission denied
> > mail:/etc # ls -l /usr/share/doc/packages/mailman
> > ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/mailman/TODO: Permission denied
> > ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/mailman/UPGRADING: Permission denied
> > ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/mailman/README.SuSE: Permission denied
> > ls: /usr/share/doc/packages/mailman/gnu-COPYING-GPL: Permission denied
> > total 9
> > drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root          138 May 19 23:52 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  359 root     root         8196 Apr 16 00:34 ..
> >
> > It's like these files don't exist but they are there.
>
> Hmm.  A directory with a size of 138 is only possible with ReiserFS AFAIK.
> lsattr and chattr don't work on ReiserFS, so it's not a problem with the
> immutable flag.  Check the output of dmesg; if there's something weird going
> on with the filesystem, there will be evidence there.  I posted a brief
> semi-guide to fixing a broken ReiserFS filesystem on c.o.l.misc a few weeks
> ago should it come to that.  (reiserfsck does *NOT* work like e2fsck or
> dosfsck....)
>
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Marcel Kunath

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