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From: "Jose Gonzalez Gomez" <jgonzalez.openinput@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Cannot remove files: operation not permitted
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:19:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <306bf010607141519g63e305fax3327b4bf806bf951@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <306bf010607141400s442c916ah3bfe9fd579c3e36b@mail.gmail.com>

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2006/7/14, Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jgonzalez.openinput@gmail.com>:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I was trying to make a clean install on a disk with a previous
> installation of Gentoo on a reiserfs partition, but I wanted to keep some
> files. I thought I would be able to boot with the LiveCD, mount the
> partition, remove everything except the files I wanted to keep (moving them
> to a temporal directory) and then copy a stage3 to the partition.
>
> After mounting the partition and trying to rm -rf a directory I got a
> "Cannot remove ... operation not permitted". After googlong a while I found
> about chattr, and although it seems this is a ext2/3 tool I tried it and I
> was able to remove some files after doing a chattr -ia on them. Any way,
> there are some files I'm not able to delete, and they seem to be non regular
> files (links, linux sockets,...). Any idea why this is happening?
>
> Solved running reiserfsck --clean-attributes on the unmounted partition,
and then remounting the partition. After that I'm able to delete everything.

Best regards
Jose

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2006-07-14 21:00 [gentoo-user] Cannot remove files: operation not permitted Jose Gonzalez Gomez
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