Unable to delete folder

[rit_netsys]

I am trying to delete a folder, but unable to do so. tried my level best to delete.
Here I am giving all the steps I have tried out -

1. Output of ls -la


ls: cannot access -loop0: Permission denied
ls: cannot access -e0.7: Permission denied
total 324
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? -e0.7
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? -loop0
drwxrwxrwx 4 geeko root 4096 Feb 8 14:46 .
drwxrwxrwt 5607 root root 323584 Feb 8 17:48 ..


2. Tried to change Permission with chmod -R 777, ( chmod -R 777 "-e0.7") but did not work.

chmod -R 777 "-e0.7"
chmod: invalid option -- 'e'
Try `chmod --help' for more information.

3. Tried to change Ownership with chown -

chown -R root "-e0.7"
chown: invalid option -- 'e'
Try `chown --help' for more information.

4. rm -rf "-e0.7"
rm: invalid option -- 'e'
Try `rm --help' for more information.

5. rm -rf ../"-e0.7"
This command does not show any error, but folder is not being deleted.

6. Even I have tried to delete the folder with inode number, but failed to do so.


As per my thinking, I need to change the permission of the folder first, but unable to change.

Any help will be appreciated.

[rafatmb]

Try to use:

rm -rf "\-e0.7"

The "-" character to be used as literal must be preceded by "\"

[rit_netsys]

No success ----


ldmserver2:/tmp/.abhishek.parwal-ltspfs # rm -rf "\-e0.7"
ldmserver2:/tmp/.abhishek.parwal-ltspfs # ls -la
ls: cannot access -loop0: Permission denied
ls: cannot access -e0.7: Permission denied
total 324
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? -e0.7
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? -loop0
drwxrwxrwx 4 geeko root 4096 Feb 8 14:46 .
drwxrwxrwt 5606 root root 323584 Feb 8 18:07 ..

[rafatmb]

First: you're logged as root?

If you don't, you must use sudo before the command, then type the root password.

As you want to delete the entire folder, try to use

sudo rm -rf /tmp/.abhishek.parwal-ltspfs

[rit_netsys]

1. Logged in as ROOT.

2. Output as per your suggestion -

ldmserver2:/tmp # rm -rf .abhishek.parwal-ltspfs
rm: cannot remove `.abhishek.parwal-ltspfs/-loop0': Permission denied
rm: cannot remove `.abhishek.parwal-ltspfs/-e0.7': Permission denied

[rafatmb]

On your first post, we can see that:

d????????? ? ? ? ? ? -e0.7
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? -loop0

Means that the both undeletable are folders (begins with "d").

Root can do everything, delete everything, even when it don't have perms to.

This would be a filesystem problem. Try to run a fsck on it.

Probably, you'll must to run "init 1" command (to turn to runlevel 1). Then remount the filesystem as read only. Then run fsck.

There's a lot of docs explaining that.

Other possibility is, when you turn to runlevel 1, try to delete the problem items.

[rit_netsys]

Tried with INIT 1 too.... still no success...

anything more I can try ??

[rafatmb]

Did you ran fsck successfully?

were there errors displayed?