Cant't delete other debian systems created files

Hello,

it seems that the chown command didn't work well. First thing you have to do is to change the ownership. You need root privileges for this, and of course the correct path. The exact path of the folder you want to take ownership. If you want to take the ownership of the additional subfolders and/or files (if any) you should use the -R option.

Here is an example.

I have a folder that belongs to another user and its name is Other. This folder is mounted under /mnt folder.

How to take the ownership ?

    sudo chown $USER:$USER /mnt/Other

Recursively ?

    sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /mnt/Other

You can replace $USER with your actual username, but is not necessary as $USER is a variable of the connected user in the system/ the user that runs the command.

    echo $USER

Then you can do anything you want in that folder (delete, write, move, copy..etc)

Regards
 NikTh

If you run:

gksudo nautilus

You can delete what you desire. I assume you have a desktop OS.

Thanks friends

I have already deleted these files with hard delete tool which is deleting blocks of files and deleting connections.

What can i do to delete these filess?????

# sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/sbin/ttymon’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/sbin/ttyload’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/sbin/ifconfig’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/bin/ps’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/bin/ls’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/bin/netstat’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/usr/sbin/ttyload’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/usr/bin/top’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/usr/bin/md5sum’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/usr/bin/pstree’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/usr/bin/find’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/usr/bin/ssh’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/usr/lib/libsh’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/etc/sh.conf’: Operation not permitted
chown: changing ownership of ‘/media/grigor/7625d8bb-b667-4d92-962a-13f508f80fb5/.Trash-1000/expunged/1433697096/lib/libsh.so’: Operation not permitted

what file system is the storage?

Try

    gksudo nautilus /media/grigor/

And see if you can just right click and delete them.

Regards
 NikTh

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) # EXT3 and these files created by NAS "D-Link DNS-323 chroot-debian mod"

Nik.Th. (nick-athens30) # "gksudo nautilus /media/grigor/" does not work: typing "Operation not permitted" or "access denied"

Well, maybe those files are not there for real ? Maybe are only links to files that are not exist ?

When you delete a file from a device that is mounted, and then you remove this device the /.Trash folder seems full, but in really is not. You must mount the device again and delete those files with the device mounted. Trash keeps symlinks to deleted files.

But lets see some info about those files.

    ls -la /media/grigor/

and

    stat -c "%a,%n" /media/grigor/*

The results could be many, but we don't need them all. 10-15 results would be OK.

Also try to remount the partition with read-write access and special permissions.

First create a specific mount point under your /home directory, where you have full access.

    mkdir device

then unmount the device and mount it again with some special permissions under "device" folder

    sudo umount /media/grigor/

    sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdXX device/ -o umask=0777

Where XX replace it with the letter and number of the partition (e.g. /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1). See the correct letter and number with

    sudo fdisk -l

Regards
 NikTh