[arch-general] Cannot delete chroot directory
Hi all, I wanted to create a new build chroot directory with mkarchroot yesterday, and mistakenly created it in the wrong place. I then interrupted the process but after it had already created some files but was not finished. (I wanted to created in ~/chroot/multlib, but wrote ~/multilib). When I tried to delete the directory (with rm -rf) but I could only delete all the files it contained. It did not work either after a reboot. This is my terminal output when I try to delete the directory [root@tollana dopsi]# LANG=en rm -rf /home/dopsi/multilib rm: cannot remove '/home/dopsi/multilib': Operation not permitted [root@tollana dopsi]# lsattr | grep multilib ------------------- ./multilib I noticed in [1] (the lock function is defined in [2]) that the directory is locked using flock, but that lock should not survive a reboot (or am I mistaken ?). Thanks for your help [1] https://git.archlinux.org/devtools.git/tree/mkarchroot.in#n66 [2] https://git.archlinux.org/devtools.git/tree/lib/common.sh#n75 -- Simon Doppler E: dopsi@dopsi.ch PGP: 5C3A 7347 AE06 D520 68A6 D292 9A08 963D B82F 5A19
This is my terminal output when I try to delete the directory
[root@tollana dopsi]# LANG=en rm -rf /home/dopsi/multilib rm: cannot remove '/home/dopsi/multilib': Operation not permitted [root@tollana dopsi]# lsattr | grep multilib ------------------- ./multilib Hey hey Simon, have you looked at the access rights: ls -ld multilib Perhaps, by some freak accident, there is no w attribute. It's the only
Nov 8 2017, Simon Doppler has written: ... thing that springs to mind. HTH and best wishes, Jeanette ... -------- * website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c Skip on the drinks Head to the floor Makin' my way Past the show My body's taken over And I want some more <3 (Britney Spears)
Le mercredi, 8 novembre 2017, 10.02:00 h CET Jeanette C. via arch-general a écrit :
Nov 8 2017, Simon Doppler has written: ...
This is my terminal output when I try to delete the directory
[root@tollana dopsi]# LANG=en rm -rf /home/dopsi/multilib rm: cannot remove '/home/dopsi/multilib': Operation not permitted [root@tollana dopsi]# lsattr | grep multilib ------------------- ./multilib
Hey hey Simon, have you looked at the access rights: ls -ld multilib Perhaps, by some freak accident, there is no w attribute. It's the only thing that springs to mind.
HTH and best wishes,
Jeanette ...
-------- * website: http://juliencoder.de - for summer is a state of sound * SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jeanette_c
Skip on the drinks Head to the floor Makin' my way Past the show My body's taken over And I want some more <3 (Britney Spears) Hi Jeannette,
I just got an off-list anwer from Florian Pritz that mkarchroot does create a btrfs subvolume (when the chroot would be in btrfs), which is the case for me. I used # btrfs subvolume delete <directory> to delete the directory. Thanks both for your help -- Simon Doppler E: dopsi@dopsi.ch PGP: 5C3A 7347 AE06 D520 68A6 D292 9A08 963D B82F 5A19
On 08.11.2017 09:47, Simon Doppler wrote:
When I tried to delete the directory (with rm -rf) but I could only delete all the files it contained. It did not work either after a reboot.
If you run btrfs, this is a btrfs subvolume which you need to remove with `btrfs subvolume delete`. Florian
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