Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote: > The point is that if there is corruption in the filesystem then the > immutable flag may have be switched on accedently. > > You notice this on ext2 when an inode has been corrupted. There's a 50% > chance the immutable bit may have been set, leading people to wonder why > they can't delete the file even as root.
I had the same problem, just worked out how to fix it, I used the chattr program, see the chattr man page for more details. -- Edward Betts (GPG: 1BC4E32B)
