I recently downloaded some files from the web and during the download process, i ran out of disk space on one of my shares.  now when i try to delete that file, i get an error saying that i i do not have permission to do so.

 

I tried stopping and starting the array and that didn't help.

 

I even tried to enable disk shares and delete them right from the disk share and that didn't work.

 

What can i do to get these files moved or deleted?

Try restarting your PC.

I tried that too and no luck.

did you try rebooting the server or just your pc?

I had rebooted my pc before and just now, i rebooted the server and still its telling me i don't have permission to delete the files.

telnet into the server and remove them directly there

how do i find the files and delete them once i am logged in a telnet session?

 

and what the heck would have caused this?

how do i find the files and delete them once i am logged in a telnet session?

 

and what the heck would have caused this?

type

mc

and then use midnight commander to explore, delete, etc.

Disks and user shares are under

/mnt

ok so i tried that and it says:

cannot delete file "path_to_file"

Read-only file system (30)

 

 

ok so i tried that and it says:

cannot delete file "path_to_file"

Read-only file system (30)

 

 

Linux makes a file system read-only when it detect corruption. (to prevent further corruption)

 

Basically, you need to run file system checks to correct the problem.

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Check_Disk_Filesystems

hmm ok well i did a reiserfsck --check on /dev/md9 which found 153 errors

 

then i did a reiserfsck --fix-fixable on /dev/md9 and it said it fixed all the errors

 

i did one more reiserfsck --check on /dev/md9 and it said zero errors this time.

 

but still when i try to delete the files from windows or from midnight commander it says read only.

 

I tried stopping and restarting the array again after doing this and i also tried rebooting the server and still no luck...

Run reiserfsck --check on all of the disks.

all other disks said that reiserfsck couldn't run because the disk was mounted in write mode.  so disk 9 is the only one in read only mode.

attach a syslog

all other disks said that reiserfsck couldn't run because the disk was mounted in write mode.  so disk 9 is the only one in read only mode.

You apparently did not follow the instructions on the wiki page I pointed you to.  It explicitly has you un-mount the disks so you can run reiserfsck.

 

Joe L.

oh sorry i was at work so i guess i didn't read them thoroughly

 

i will give it a try again.

 

also syslog is attached.

syslog-2011-10-07.txt