Hello, on my ext3 fs I have a file that I can not modify anymore: $ who am i root pts/0 Nov 18 19:42 (192.168.10.110) $ ls -al /mnt/path/usage_200306.html -rw-r-xrw- 1 50946 nobody 99935 Jul 1 2003 /mnt/path/usage_200306.html $ rm /mnt/path/usage_200306.html rm: remove regular file `/mnt/path/usage_200306.html'? y rm: cannot remove `/mnt/path/usage_200306.html': Operation not permitted $ chmod a+x /mnt/path/usage_200306.html chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/path/usage_200306.html': Operation not permitted The fs is NOT mounted readonly, I can move around / change other files on the partition. However running a full e2fsck -f on the fs does not find any problem. $ ./e2fsck/e2fsck -f /dev/sdb6 e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information $ ./e2fsck/e2fsck -V e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.38, 30-Jun-2005 $ $ stat /mnt/path/usage_200306.html File: `/mnt/path/usage_200306.html' Size: 99935 Blocks: 160 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 816h/2070d Inode: 2149222 Links: 1 Access: (0656/-rw-r-xrw-) Uid: (50946/ UNKNOWN) Gid: ( 99/ nobody) Access: 2005-11-19 00:36:35.000000000 +0100 Modify: 2003-07-01 04:55:16.000000000 +0200 Change: 2004-02-14 02:35:36.000000000 +0100 $ uname -a Linux machine 2.4.29-grsec #10 SMP Mon Jul 4 14:26:46 CEST 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux This is not a hard disk problem: dd'ed the whole partition from one disk to a brand new one and had the same problem on the new disk. Do you guys have any suggestions on how to further diagnose or fix this? I also tried it on a 2.6 kernel without grsec, same result. best regards, Jochen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users