On Sat, 2007-10-13 22:40:23 +0530, vignesh babu <vigneshbabu@gmail.com> wro=
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> I was surprised and did an ls -l on the files and guess what I found:
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> total 0
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? fcntl.c
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? fifo.c
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? filesystems.c
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? file_table.c
> ?--------- ? ? ? ?                ? freevxfs
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> So end result is that, Im not able to delete the files or change perms
> or ownership even as root.

Most probably, your filesystem is broken and needs a fsck.

MfG, JBG

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