On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:56:39PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:

 > I've got this snapshot of an ext3 filesystem with a directory that
 > simply cannot be removed! (image below is just 1.2MB)
 > As root:
 > # wget http://users.nagafix.co.uk/~antoine/root-broken.bz2
 > # bunzip2 root-broken.bz2
 > # mount -o loop -t ext2 root-broken ./tmp
 > # rm -fr tmp/chroot.broken
 > rm: cannot remove directory (...)
 > Same result when trying to do anything to those files chown/chmod/touch:
 > "Operation not permitted"
 > 
 > Tested with e2fsprogs v1.39 on 3 systems.
 > Not sure where else to post this...

Various files in the directories it complains about have their 'i'
bit set.  lsattr will show you.   chattr -i those files, and the
directory is removable again.

	Dave

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