November 15, 2025Nov 15 Title sorta says it all. Back story:Had two disks fail (not hardware) , rebuilt them manually, but had a TON of lost&found folders and files. I have cleaned it all up by moving files into a share on the respective two recovered disks and fixing things from there.The ONLY issue I am having is removing a SINGLE file. I have tried via SSH & terminal. It is showing 3.09 EB! (3,572,860,863,011,278,182 bytes)When I attempt to delete, I receive a 'permission denied' error. (WinSCP). The terminal shows "operation not permitted". The file is set to the owner 'nobody' and group 'users' with 0666 permissions. (read/write/delete)To add to the problem, I tried to move it, and now have a "copy" (haha) on another folder which I also cannot remove. I can't rename it either. Any ideas on how I can get rid of this? Edited November 15, 2025Nov 15 by dja
November 15, 2025Nov 15 Author 2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:Would check filesystem on the affected disk.No issues found. First thing I did. Really stumped.
November 15, 2025Nov 15 Community Expert Filesystem probably got hosed too badly then, likely not much choice but to move everything out, format and copy back.
November 15, 2025Nov 15 Author Solution Running the following did the trick:After running the below command, delete the file and all set! chattr -i "file name"
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