On 12/12/2011 01:04 PM, Mogens Kjaer wrote: > On 12/12/2011 12:45 PM, Theo Band wrote: >> 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