removing weired file from ext3 filesystem

[Karl Larsen]

Sven Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have a big problem here.
>
> I have a backup hard drive with an ext3 partition.
> One of my friends made a backup on it with some gentoo portage
> things.
>
> Now that he is gone i wanted to delete the 4 files which are taking
> 8GB away but i am not allowed to do so.
>
> And it is really weired.
>
> Here is the output from ls -lisa in the directory:
> 2294475 4 drwsrwsrwt     1 garfield   garfield   4096 2008-02-25 13:57 .
> 2294466 4 drwsrwsrwt     3 garfield   garfield   4096 2008-02-24 17:40 ..
> 2295969 0 ?r-S-w-rwx 22388 1493481812 2730945560    0 1994-07-14 01:13 
> xs_colors.h
> 2295970 0 ?-w--wSrwT 11213 1860258772 3079427123    0 1994-03-27 20:32 
> xs_hsv.c
> 2295973 0 ?r-Sr-srw- 41851 2051597284 2199566066    0 1951-07-26 13:33 
> xs_visual.c
> 2295975 0 ?r-srwxr-x 32895 3767851949 2220932723    0 1941-10-18 11:42 
> xs_yarandom.h
>
> And sudo rm -v xs_colors.h gives me:
> rm: remove write-protected weird file `xs_colors.h'? y
> rm: cannot remove `xs_colors.h': Operation not permitted
>
> The same happens when i try to chmod or chown the files
> as sudo or user.
>
> The output of file xs_colors.h is:
> xs_colors.h: ERROR: invalid mode 074427
>
> I even tried to remove the file over the inode with
> find . i number -exec rm ...
> But i dont have the permissions :D
>
> So i unmounted the partition and started to check it with fdisk.
> It found a lot of errors to much for me, so i started fdisk -a.
> fdisk fiddled around for a while and and then died with the message
> that there are errors that have to be handled manually.
> But again fdisk without -a needs a 1000 user inputs or much more
> and i dont want to spend my afternoon sitting here and pressing y.
>
>
> Any ideas what else i could do despite reformatting the partition?
>
>
> Greetings
> Sven
>
>   
    You know the partition you want to clear the files from. In a 
terminal window use:

sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/(partition) and put the proper thing here and your 
files will be gone. All of the stuff on that partition in fact.

Karl


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