Re: strange file in root dir

From: Armin Krawinkel (geschrei@gmx.at)
Date: 12/14/02 

From: Armin Krawinkel <geschrei@gmx.at>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:48:42 GMT

Jan de Ruijter wrote:

> Hi,
> Does anyone know what this means? I have a strange very long (more
> than
> *Mb) file in mmy rootdirectory named .journal owner and group
> are root and -rw------ are the permissions.
> When I try to remove (as su) it with
>
> rm /.journal
>
> it says
>
> rm: cannot unlink "/.journal": operation not permitted.
> Any ideas?
> Thanks Jan

this must be the ext3 journal file. a system file of the ext3
filesystem 

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