Re: Query - Regarding strange behaviour.

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Date:	Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:31:15 +0100
To: Pankaj Agarwal <pankaj@toughguy.net>

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 09:48:12PM +0530, Pankaj Agarwal wrote:
> [root@test usr]# lsattr -d /usr/bin
> su--ia------- /usr/bin

Well, there's your problem. These mean:

s: when deleted, its blocks are zeroed and written back to the disk
u: when deleted, its contents are saved.
i: cannot be modified: it cannot be deleted or renamed,
a: can only be open in append mode for writing

Remove those flags with chattr...

Hope this helps,

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "S Iremonger" <exxsi@bath.ac.uk>
> To: "Pankaj Agarwal" <pankaj@toughguy.net>
> Cc: <linux-os@analogic.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; "Linux Net"
> <linux-net@vger.kernel.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Query - Regarding strange behaviour.
>
>
> >>its not even allowing me to copy it ...then surely it wont allow me mv as
> >>well... what else can i try...
> >>[root@test root]# mount
> >>/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> >>[root@test /]# cd /usr
> >>[root@test usr]# cp bin testbin
> >>cp: omitting directory `bin'
> >
> >"cp" does not normally copy direcrories as such by DEFAULT.
> >
> >Use the "-R" flag on "cp" to make it 'recurse' and copy the whole
> > directory and directory/files under it.
> >
> >e.g. "cp -R bin bincopy"
> >
> >
> >And, show us all the results of the following 2 commands, please.
> >
> >ls -ld /usr/bin
> >lsattr -d /usr/bin
> >
> >--S Iremonger <exxsi@bath.ac.uk>
> >
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