Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 09:06:27 +0530 From: Deb* Mohanty To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Files not accessible after reinstalling OS and cygwin In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id j9T3aZP9008896 Dear Experts, I had windows2k and cygwin installed on my machine, and I had marked some files as read-only (using cygwin chmod). For some reasons, I had to reinstall windows2k. I also reinstalled cygwin in the same location as it was installed earlier. However the files which were marked read-only earlier are not accessible now. They can't be deleted either. Those are huge files and taking up the space. Any solutions? Thanks, Deb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/