Strange problems removing files [SOLVED]

[bram2000]

Hi all,

I am trying to free up some space on my second hard drive, which has Ubuntu on it (I dual boot between Gentoo and Ubuntu but use Gentoo all of the time these days) and have found some files that I can't remove. It is an SVN checkout of BMPX. I'm seeing strange things like this:

[timeBandit]

Yes. The problem is almost certainly that the permission flags are corrupt in the files' parent directory.
It looks like the directory these files are in is named props, correct?
To delete them, as root, starting in the directory with the problem files:

[bram2000]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply, It turns out I had bad blocks on my second HD. Once I got these problems sorted I used the above steps and removed the files.

Cheers,

Jon