On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 23:21:50 -0800, "Tom Livingston" <tsl@volition.org> said:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> IIRC, Ted said that he intended to fix e2fsprogs to handle this. You
>> didn't say which version you are using... latest is e2fsprogs-1.17 and
>> might already include support to handle it.
> Thanks for the tip! I upgraded to 1.17, but chattr has the same reaction ;(
You cannot chattr a device file for a device which isn't present,
because before you can do ioctl() on a file descriptor you need to be
able to open the file!
e2fsck from the 1.17 e2fsprogs should detect these illegal immutable
device inodes and remove them automatically.
--Stephen
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