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[Andreas Lange]

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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