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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: David Newall <david@davidnewall.com>
Cc: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>,
	tytso@thunk.org,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in fsck or ext2/ext3?
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:21:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070924182125.GN11455@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F7FEF9.2070702@davidnewall.com>

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:46:25AM +0930, David Newall wrote:
 > Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:56:39PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
 > >
 > >  > # 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"
 > >
 > > 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.
 > 
 > Additionally, this is a classic symptom of malware.  A directory  named 
 > "..." is a big hint.

That was "..." as in "more stuff follows" rather than the actual name
being reported.

	Dave

-- 
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 18:22 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
2007-09-24 18:16   ` David Newall
2007-09-24 18:21     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-09-24 17:14 ` Alistair John Strachan

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