[PLUG] File won't stay deleted

[Don Buchholz]

On 2/9/2016 9:42 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:24:20 -0800
> Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> dijo:
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:07 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:17:41 -0800
>>> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>>>> Xubuntu 14.04.3, up to date. Files ystem is ext4.
>>>>
>>>> Some time ago I created an ISO image of a movie DVD. I have been
>>>> through with the file for some time so I no longer need it. I can
>>>> delete it with either Thunar or the command line, but a few hours
>>>> later it reappears. Each time it reappears the size of the file
>>>> changes, always to slightly smaller, i.e., originally it was 4.6 GB,
>>>> but after deleting it a dozen times it now appears as only 2.6 GB.
>>> Correction: It just reappeared again, and this time it is 4.6 GB. So
>>> it isn't always smaller.
>>>
>>> I wonder if some process has it open and keeps repairing it for you.
>> Does lsof say anything about it?
> I tried lsof, but unless I can figure out a way to grep or filter the
> results it is useless - pages and pages of incomprehensible stuff.
>
> But since my original post I have additional information. I tried to
> rename it, just to see what would happen. A short while later the
> original reappeared alongside the renamed version. Now I have two that
> I can't get rid of. This is not an improvement!
>
> And then I tried double-clicking on the files. This launched K3b (my
> default burner), but for each file K3b threw an error saying that it
> couldn't open the file. So maybe the files really are not there; what
> I'm seeing is some ghost image. But the ghost image appears in both
> Thunar and the terminal. And deleting them with Thunar or the command
> line makes the ghost disappear, but only for a while.
>
> Any more suggestions?

1)  Shutdown.
2)  Reboot into single-user mode.
3)  Login as 'root'.
4)  Use "rm -f" to delete the file.