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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
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Subject: Re: Weird ext2fs immortal directory bug
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Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 10:22:52 -0600 (MDT)
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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
-- 
Andreas Dilger                               Turbolinux filesystem development
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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