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# 1  
Old 03-08-2012
Can't delete files
Hello,
I'm having an issue deleting a file from my home directory.
This the file I want to delete .shapshot. It looks like it is shapshoting my files in my home directory. Anyway how do I stop these snapshots?
This is the command I used.
Code:
 rm -rf /home/cyberninja/.snapshot

Code:
ls -la /home/cyberninja/
drwxrwxrwx 10 root root  4096 mar 8 12:00 .snapshot
ls -la  /home/cyberninja/.snapshot
drwxr-x--- 26 cyberninja users 8192 Mar 6 14:17 hourly.0
drwxr-x--- 26 cyberninja users 8192 Mar 6 14:17 hourly.1
drwxr-x--- 26 cyberninja users 8192 Mar 6 14:17 hourly.2
drwxr-x--- 26 cyberninja users 8192 Mar 6 14:17 hourly.3
drwxr-x--- 26 cyberninja users 8192 Mar 6 14:17 hourly.4
drwxr-x--- 26 cyberninja users 8192 Mar 6 14:17 hourly.5
drwxr-x--- 26 cyberninja users 8192 Mar 6 14:17 nightly.0
drwxr-x--- 26 cyberninja users 8192 Mar 6 14:17 nightly.1

If I remove the file as root it just comes back. Can someone point me in the right direction?
# 2  
Old 03-08-2012
Open another terminal and run:
Code:
dtrace -n 'syscall::open*:entry/basename(copyinstr(arg0))=="hourly.0"/{printf("ROOT_DIR:%s CWD:%s NAME:%s FILE:%s PID:%d PPID:%d UID:%d TIME:%Y",root,cwd,execname,copyinstr(arg0),pid,ppid,uid,walltimestamp);}' 2>/dev/null

In your current terminal run rm -fr /home/cyberninja/.snapshot and go back to the second terminal (with dtrace) and wait... Smilie You should see which program created those "hourly" files.
# 3  
Old 03-08-2012
Ok i will try that, thanks

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OK, I don't get anything.
# 4  
Old 03-08-2012
Ah, I didn't notice that those are directories... can you do find /home/cyberninja/.snapshot and post the output?
# 5  
Old 03-08-2012
these look like ZFS snapshots... why do you want to delete them?
# 6  
Old 03-08-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
these look like ZFS snapshots... why do you want to delete them?
I think ZFS snapshots are always under /filesystem/.zfs/snapshot.
# 7  
Old 03-08-2012
I'm doing system harding and this comes up as a finding because of the permissions being to high on the files. I never setup snapshots so I don't know why there there. I know very little about zfs snapshots.

I don't need backups of my files in my home directory. I think that instead of changing the permissions on all the files, deleting them would be easier.

Thanks for looking at this
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