On 2014-09-14, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014, Always Learning wrote: >> >>The fsck cured the problem. The problem files were removed by fsck >>during its recovery/rectification. > > The first thing you should do when you find files or directories > is use 'lsattr' to check the attributes. The OP already did that. > You can use the 'chattr' command to change the attributes with > something like 'chattr -i /bin/ps' to remove immutable attribute. The OP tried chattr, and reported that it failed for certain files. This is why other people suggested an fsck; these are both indicators of a damaged filesystem. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us