An invincible file

[William Park]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:41:24PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:31:09AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> > I've got a file that for some reasons seems semi-invincible. Here's a
> > quick overview (we'll call the file /opt/data/.config.xml).
> > a) root # ls -ld .config.xml
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4050 Mar 18 08:07 .config.xml
> > 
> > b) root # ls -ld /opt/data
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Oct  4 13:43 /opt/data/
> > 
> > c) Unmounted /opt, fsck'ed, and there are no visible FS errors
> > 
> > d) root # lsattr .config.xml
> > ------------- .config.xml
> > 
> > e) root  # mount | grep opt
> > /dev/sda3 on /opt type ext3 (rw)
> > 
> > 
> > The file cannot be renamed or deleted. The contents *can* be edited.
> > The filesystem isn't readonly, The file isn't undeletable/immutable.
> > The user is root
> > 
> > 
> > Any ideas
> 
> Time for an fsck.  You may have a corrupt directory, which could cause
> that behaviour.

But, he already did that.  I would've guessed 'lsattr', but that's clean
too.
-- 
William
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