I have an external drive (WD My Book World) mounted on my Ubuntu system which I've used for backups over the last few years. Some of the backups included SVN repositories which now include files which I can't appear to delete. I can mv
them and view their contents, but that seems to be it. My question is: how can I remove these files from this external drive?
Here's a sample of what I'm dealing with:
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# mount | grep mybook
//192.168.1.4/PUBLIC on /mnt/mybook type cifs (rw,mand)
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# ls -lh entries
-r-xr--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1.2K 2008-03-26 21:29 entries
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# file entries
entries: ASCII text
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# head -n5 entries
8
dir
1
file:///home/svn/gt_data
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# stat entries
File: `entries'
Size: 1201 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 16384 regular file
Device: 18h/24d Inode: 2149510 Links: 1
Access: (0544/-r-xr--r--) Uid: ( 33/www-data) Gid: ( 33/www-data)
Access: 2008-03-26 21:29:34.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2008-03-26 21:29:34.000000000 -0700
Change: 2010-01-09 08:59:06.000000000 -0800
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# rm entries
rm: cannot remove `entries': No such file or directory
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# cat > entries
-su: entries: No such file or directory
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# lsattr entries
lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on entries
@Tobu,
root@zodiac:/mnt/mybook# grep mybook /proc/self/mountinfo
33 18 0:24 / /mnt/mybook rw - cifs //192.168.1.4/PUBLIC rw,mand,unc=\\192.168.1.4\PUBLIC,username=root,posixpaths,acl,rsize=16384,wsize=57344
grep mybook /proc/self/mountinfo
say?tail -F /var/log/syslog /var/log/kern.log
while you do therm entries
could tell you more.rm entries
. Any other thoughts? I'm not aware of another fs that this device will mount with which might behave better.