Re: Weird ext2fs immortal directory bug

[Andreas Dilger]

Dan writes:
> sentry21@Petra:1:/lost+found$ sudo rm -rf \#3147/
> rm: cannot unlink `#3147': Operation not permitted
> 
> Weird, ne? I -did- manage to make it -not rwxrwxrwx, suid, sgid, sticky,
> and every other bloody FS flag you can stick on a directory (and lots you
> can't), but it's still impervious to my sk|llz. It's not hurting anything,
> but cron whines about it every day.

Run "debugfs -w /dev/hdX", and then:

debugfs> mi <3147>
# set Mode to 0
# set Deletion time to something other than 0
# set Link count to 0
# set Block count to 0
# set File flags to 0
debugfs> freei <3147>
debugfs> q

e2fsck -f /dev/hdX

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger                               Turbolinux filesystem development
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