Undeleteable file???

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:36:01AM -0400, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> I've deleted a file (rm -f filename) but it keeps showing up with ls.
> When I try to edit it with vi I get a new file and can even create a
> second file with the same name. Both files show up with ls. Permissions
> are 644. Owner is root:root and I'm logged in as root.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this?
> The machine is using CentOS 5.7 if that helps.

Are you sure the filename doesn't end in a space or something?

Does rm without -f work for that filename?

How about:

rm -i filename*

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