On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Larry Kollar wrote:
> Only the /home partition got corrupted, and it took fsck two
> passes to find all the problems.  However, two files got so
> completely trashed that they look like devices.  Worse, I can't
> do ***anything*** to them -- mv (rename or to another dir),
> rm -f, chmod, chown, all return "Operation not permitted."
> This happens even in single-user mode.

Those two files probably have one or more special file flags set. Do a
"ls -lo" on them to find out. Use "chflags" to remove the flags (see the
manpage for instructions :), then you should be able to delete them. 
(Depending on your kernel security level, you may need to be in
single-user mode to run chflags).
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