Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Cannot remove a file

On 12/12/2011 01:04 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:

On 12/12/2011 12:45 PM, Theo Band wrote:

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Any ideas on what else I can do to get rid of this file?

Does

man lsattr man chattr

help you?

Mogens

Thanks this is indeed the the answer:

# lsattr aquota.user ----i--A----- aquota.user

A file with the 'i' attribute cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed, no link can be created to this file and no data can be written to the file. Only the supe- ruser or a process possessing the CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE capability can set or clear this attribute.

# chattr -i aquota.user # rm aquota.user rm: remove regular file `aquota.user'? y

Learned something today :-)

Theo