Hi all,

I am using a reiserfs partition mounted using Redhat Enterprise's 
2.6.9-22.0.1.EL (rebuilt), and I have files that refuse to delete:

[root@gatekeeper proc]# ls -al p*
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Apr 15 20:50 partitions
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Apr 15 20:50 pci
[root@gatekeeper proc]# rm -f p*
rm: cannot remove `partitions': Operation not permitted
rm: cannot remove `pci': Operation not permitted
[root@gatekeeper proc]# pwd
/var/lib/diskless/i386/fedora-core-2/root/proc

(The files were somehow copied from a /proc tree, they are otherwise 
normal files).

For some reason they are not deletable. The partition is mounted like this:

/dev/sda4 on /var type reiserfs (rw)

I tried to find a way of running reiserfsck against the partition, but 
for some reason this is impossible on a read/write filesystem. The 
machine is not geographically nearby, so unmounting it is not possible 
at the moment.

Can anyone recommend a way to rescue this filesystem, or am I going to 
have to make the drive of shame?

The reiserfs-utils package I am using is reiserfs-utils-3.6.4-5.

Regards,
Graham
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