Hello, > > The fs is NOT mounted readonly, I can move around / change > other files on > > the partition. > > Is it marked as immutable (somehow)? As root, try: > chattr -i <file> That's it: It had really strange attr-settings (+a +c). After removing the "append only" it now works. I wonder how this happened, maybe I had a hardware problem on the disk some time ago. Thank you very much Alex! regards, Jochen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users