Hello everybody. I'm serching a little help with Linux...
I'm an archeologist working with grass 4.3 for some months. Someday something
went wrong with my hard disk and my "site_files" directory and the "windows"
file of a mapset become "block devices". And I cannot open, move or delete
them because "I've not permission".
I don't worry for the data because I've got some backups. The problem is that
I cannot remove these block devices. So I cannot copy the ancient "site_files"
and "windows" from the backup (they have de same name). First I must remove
these block devices. Can anybody tell me how can I send them to trash?
Thank you very much
Quim Soler i Subils
Laboratori de Prehistòria i Arqueologia
Universitat de Girona
Girona, Spain
jsole010 wrote:
Hello everybody. I'm serching a little help with Linux...
I'm an archeologist working with grass 4.3 for some months. Someday something
went wrong with my hard disk and my "site_files" directory and the "windows"
file of a mapset become "block devices". And I cannot open, move or delete
them because "I've not permission".
You may remove every file as root/superuser, regardless of its
permissions. Use "su -- root" to become root and get permission (you
need the password!).
Use "rm -fR site_files windows" to remove entire directory tree without
confirmation (be _very_ careful! Double check everything! don't blame me
if something goes wrong!, see man mknod, man rm etc).
If someone played a trick on you and changed the file attributes you
must first change them with "chattr" (see man lsattr and man chattr).
And perhaps you should read a book on Unix/Linux shell...
HTH
Andreas
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