[SOLVED] can not delete file mounted using fstab

awaismalik · 05-23-2022, 07:54 AM

I can not delete the file have tried rm and rm -rf also

Code:

user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ ls
'List Teams.ods'
user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ rm List\ Teams.ods
rm: unable to remove 'List\ Teams': file or directory not found
user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ ls
'List Teams.ods'

File permission

Code:

$ ls -al
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user users 24809 May 18 10:14 'List Teams.ods'

Mount

Code:

$ cat /etc/fstab

//serverIP/folder1                /home/user/samba/folder          cifs   vers=1.0,noauto,users,credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials,nobrl,noserverino     0          0

suramya · 05-23-2022, 08:02 AM

The error message states that it can't find the 'List\ Teams' file where as the file in the folder is 'List\ Teams.ods'. Try deleting with 'rm *.ods' (without the quotes) in the correct directory.
Another option is to run "rm *" (without the quotes)

jmgibson1981 · 05-23-2022, 08:02 AM

Try with quotes?? I've had the occasional time where escaping spaces didn't work. Never figured why but I'm sure it was me.

Code:

rm "List Teams.ods"

awaismalik · 05-23-2022, 08:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jmgibson1981

Try with quotes?? I've had the occasional time where escaping spaces didn't work. Never figured why but I'm sure it was me.

Code:

rm "List Teams.ods"

Forgot to mention but i tried this too

no luck

michaelk · 05-23-2022, 08:46 AM

Try deleting using the files inode.

ls -li
xxxxxxx ....... List Teams.ods

find . -inum xxxxxxx -delete

TB0ne · 05-23-2022, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by awaismalik

I can not delete the file have tried rm and rm -rf also

Code:

user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ ls
'List Teams.ods'
user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ rm List\ Teams.ods
rm: unable to remove 'List\ Teams': file or directory not found
user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ ls
'List Teams.ods'

File permission

Code:

$ ls -al
-rwxrwxrwx 1 user users 24809 May 18 10:14 'List Teams.ods'

Mount

Code:

$ cat /etc/fstab
//serverIP/folder1                /home/user/samba/folder          cifs   vers=1.0,noauto,users,credentials=/home/user/.smbcredentials,nobrl,noserverino     0          0

This is a CIFS drive mount; have you checked the ACL on that folder/file?? Read the man page on the getfacl command, and post those results.

And you've not followed up/responded in your other threads..doesn't give folks much incentive to try to continue to help you.

awaismalik · 05-23-2022, 01:09 PM

Following are the result of getfacl command:

Code:

user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ getfacl -aed List\ Teams.ods
# file: List Teams.ods
# owner: user
# group: users
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx

Code:

user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ getfacl -t List\ Teams.ods
# file: List Teams.ods
USER   user      rwx     
GROUP  users     rwx     
other            rwx

Also tried deleting file using inode but was not sucessful.

TB0ne · 05-23-2022, 01:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by awaismalik

Following are the result of getfacl command:

Code:

user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ getfacl -aed List\ Teams.ods
# file: List Teams.ods
# owner: user
# group: users
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx

Code:

user:~/samba/folder1/folder2$ getfacl -t List\ Teams.ods
# file: List Teams.ods
USER   user      rwx     
GROUP  users     rwx     
other            rwx

Also tried deleting file using inode but was not sucessful.

Where is this drive located? How is it connected? Would seem to be a network drive, on a Windows system; what are the permissions there?? Does the user you're using to mount that drive have permissions to delete/modify??

MadeInGermany · 05-23-2022, 01:19 PM

Try

Code:

\rm -i *.ods*

and say Y only for the one to be deleted.

awaismalik · 05-23-2022, 01:20 PM

Yes it is a network drive (NAS) https://kb.synology.com/en-nz/search and user has the permission to modify and delete the file. Moreover can also use chmod and chown for changing file permission and ownership respectively.

TB0ne · 05-23-2022, 01:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by awaismalik

Yes it is a network drive (NAS) https://kb.synology.com/en-nz/search and user has the permission to modify and delete the file. Moreover can also use chmod and chown for changing file permission and ownership respectively.

Please provide all details when asking a question; best to tell us it's a synology nas connected over a network, versus us having to guess.

synoacltool is for use in checking ACL's on a Synology NAS, so you'll have to check things out on the NAS itself. Also, you can mount it via NFS or Samba, versus a CIFS mount, and you can even mount it using SSHFS. Have you tried mounting it in other ways??

computersavvy · 05-23-2022, 08:51 PM

With those file permissions at first glance the file appears accessible to write and delete.

However, I have to ask what are the permissions of that directory where the file is located?
With linux, even if the user has 'rwx' permissions on the file, if they do not also have write permissions in the directory they cannot write a new file nor delete a file there because deleting a file involves altering the directory contents. Check that next.

awaismalik · 06-03-2022, 02:43 AM

After an update cifs-utils (2:6.9-1ubuntu0.2) and tried mount per filemanager i can delete

ondoho · 06-04-2022, 12:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by awaismalik

After an update cifs-utils (2:6.9-1ubuntu0.2) and tried mount per filemanager i can delete

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