From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>
Cc: tytso@thunk.org, Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in fsck or ext2/ext3?
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:04:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070924170439.GF8127@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F7EC47.9010803@nagafix.co.uk>
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:56:39PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
> I've got this snapshot of an ext3 filesystem with a directory that
> simply cannot be removed! (image below is just 1.2MB)
> As root:
> # wget http://users.nagafix.co.uk/~antoine/root-broken.bz2
> # bunzip2 root-broken.bz2
> # mount -o loop -t ext2 root-broken ./tmp
> # rm -fr tmp/chroot.broken
> rm: cannot remove directory (...)
> Same result when trying to do anything to those files chown/chmod/touch:
> "Operation not permitted"
>
> Tested with e2fsprogs v1.39 on 3 systems.
> Not sure where else to post this...
Various files in the directories it complains about have their 'i'
bit set. lsattr will show you. chattr -i those files, and the
directory is removable again.
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-24 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-24 16:56 bug in fsck or ext2/ext3? Antoine Martin
2007-09-24 17:04 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-09-24 18:16 ` David Newall
2007-09-24 18:21 ` Dave Jones
2007-09-24 17:14 ` Alistair John Strachan
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