| Kyle Taylor on 5 Jul 2016 12:45:45 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Undeletable file, how to get rid of it? |
Have you tried removing by inode number? http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/delete-remove-files-with-inode-number.html\ > On Jul 5, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com> wrote: > > A user found they couldn't delete a directory on their FTP account and called me for help, thinking their permissions had been changed. > It turns out that the reason is there's a file they uploaded that the OS can't delete. > The FTP server is running on linux; the user's FTP directory is stored on a separate NAS device on the LAN. It is mounted with cifs at boot. > > I've searched for help on this but answers provided seem to focus on the case where the filename has spaces or other embedded non-visible characters. In that case, using Midnight Commander or another program that lets you select and delete the file, works. > > I cannot. MC says "Cannot stat [filename] No such file or directory (2)" > > If I type "rm" and the first character of the filename and hit tab, the system brings up the rest of the filename properly. If I then hit enter, I get: > rm: cannot remove ‘filename’: No such file or directory > > This result was unexpected, I don't know what that means: > touch: cannot touch ‘filename’: No such file or directory > > How do I delete a file like this, that's simultaneously there and not there? Is there any way to prevent this from recurring? > > -- > Greg Helledy > GRA, Incorporated > P: +1 215-884-7500 > F: +1 215-884-1385 > www.gra.aero > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug