I have a directory I'm unable to delete, and the files it contains.

Permission are 755, the parent dir is 755, and it's parent is 1777 and the mount point.

1777 755 755
/mnt/fs3/Builds/crazydir/files

Other files and dirs under "Builds" I can delete, but not crazydir, nor the files it contains.

I can't do anything to crazydir; I can't move it, I can't chown it, even to root.root (and it's already set to root.root), using rm -rf on it gives me messages like:

rm: cannot remove `tmp/install': Permission denied

Anything I do to it gives me a permission denied error.

stat shows me:
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x

As root, I've done chmod ugo+rw -R crazydir
It changes permissions on all the files except for the subdirectories. And yet still I can't delete and of the files in crazydir.

fs3 is an lvm partition.

I've run fsck -f on it, and it came up clean.

Hi,

did you check the attributes on those directories?
lsattr /mnt/fs3/
lsattr /mnt/fs3/Builds/
lsattr /mnt/fs3/Builds/crazydir/

I assume that you tried to remove them as root and not just as normal user.

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Thanks; chattr -R =e was what I needed. Strange, I never have used chattr before; I wonder how this dir became haywired.

And yes, I had been running everything as root.

Thanks a lot, that was 1.6megs that will never bother me again.