> The following was observed with kernel 2.0.30 and e2fsprogs 1.10. Brian later
> tried to do 'chattr -i' on those files but it failed as described in the 2nd
> forwarded message. Brian still has these files around if anyone needs him to
> do any testing.
> I have a few files on my disk were created by filesystems problems that I
> am completely unable to get rid of.
>
> Here is what I tried to do first:
>
> dragon:/tmp/wcsmbs# ls -l
> total 3982528256
> c--xrw-r-- 1 14464 35136 141, 0 Jun 17 1902 wcpcpy.o
> b--sr-srwt 1 14951 14964 101, 100 Apr 10 2030 wcscat.d
> br-xrws-w- 1 29791 29791 105, 116 Aug 19 2022 wcscat.o
> br-sr-xr-T 1 29791 24420 116, 101 May 10 05:05 wcschr.d
> br-xrw--w- 1 25710 13619 53, 51 May 5 2024 wcscmp.o
> c--Srws--- 1 15160 59 49, 114 May 7 1999 wcsdup.d
> dragon:/tmp/wcsmbs# rm -f *
> rm: wcpcpy.o: Operation not permitted
> rm: wcscat..d: Operation not permitted
> rm: wcscat.o: Operation not permitted
> rm: wcschr.d: Operation not permitted
> rm: wcscmp.o: Operation not permitted
> rm: wcsdup.d: Operation not permitted
This has come up several times recently...it seems as though some recent
change in e2fsck must be doing things very differently to produce this
sort of problem. I think I remember reading that the only solution is to
umount the partition in question and use ext2ed on it to delete the files.
I have similar trash in /home/lost+found on one of my systems and have not
gotten around to trying the above yet.
[root@tarkin ext2ed-0.1-8]# ls -l /home/lost+found/
total 2143130000
?r--r-S--T 1 17481 28706 574441556 May 6 2008 #65475
c--xr-xrwx 1 12092 24947 99, 46 Jan 9 2026 #65476
br-xr-s--- 1 28769 26727 79, 70 Jul 21 2027 #65477
?r-srwS--- 1 25866 29538 1869508451 Jan 19 2026 #65478
c--x-w--wx 1 20300 15370 62, 73 Aug 18 2012 #65480
?r-S--s-w- 1 15370 28015 1128021584 Nov 8 2006 #65484
c---rw--wt 1 18464 21588 70, 69 Aug 14 2011 #65486
cr--r---wT 1 26214 15952 84, 78 Mar 4 2012 #65487
c--xr-xrwx 1 8289 29554 112, 112 Mar 28 1987 #65488
?---rw---- 1 13360 11588 1394614832 Jun 3 2000 #65491
cr-Srwsr-T 1 20294 8272 71, 77 Jan 15 1977 #65492
?--x-w-r-t 1 8261 21582 1293960783 Mar 19 2005 #65493
br-xrwSr-- 1 8307 26978 119, 32 Dec 7 2023 #65496
?r-Srwsrw- 1 15370 16956 1111577647 Dec 6 1976 #65497
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