[SLE] Undeletable files/directory

From: Basil Chupin (blchupin_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 11/13/03

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    Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 01:25:07 +1100
To: SLE <suse-linux-e@suse.com>

    I have a partition (/data1) formatted in reiserfs on the second HD where
    I store backups of various files.

    I just installed SUSE 9 and whether this caused the problem I don't know
    - and I don't really care so long as I can delete some files.

    What the problem is is that I suddenly found files in a directory in
    /data1 which I cannot delete even as root. The message I get if I try to
    delete is Permission denied (13). All the files begin with the character
    '?' and are 0 bytes long.

    The files are only visible using mc (Midnight Commander) and are
    coloured red; they are not visible using ls -la from the command line or
    using Konqueror.

    Trying to delete them from the command line using rm <filename> gives
    the same error message as in mc, ie Permission denied, while doing rm
    <?filename> gives the message of No such file.

    Short of reformatting the partition, how may I delete these files? And
    what the heck are they so that even root cannot touch them?

    Cheers. 

    -- 
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