root user cannot remove, move, rename web folder of any added website?!

Can you tell me why a root user cannot remove, move, rename web folder of any added website?

Code:

root@server1: /var/www/domain.com $ mv web web_old
mv: cannot move `web' to `web_old': Permission denied

I try to use full path (not symlink of domain.com)

Code:

root@server1: /var/www/clients/client1/web1 $ mv web web_old
mv: cannot move `web' to `web_old': Permission denied

the result is same..

Interesting to me how come the root account has no rights to make these changes? These folders as system folder are marked or what?

Can I fix that..

 

can you post the permissions of the directories/files in question? also, what is the output of the 'id' or 'whoami' commands?

did you verify that the directories/files do not have immutable flag? can you run those commands under 'strace' so we can know what sys calls are called?

 

Thanks, Till.

 

Just tried this after a web search brought me here, but it didn't work out; permission was denied even after chattr -i. Were there any changes since 2013 when this thread was started?

 

What command are you using with which arguments?
I can not see how the commands @till showed in #2 would not work. Provided the commands are issued as root user, the file system is not mounted read-only and the other usual suspects.

 

I tried 'mv' to either rename the 'web' directory in place or move it into the 'private' directory. I tried issuing the commands as root and as the web user owning the directories. (It turned out, though, that I didn't have to move or remove 'web'; for what I wanted to achieve, I just needed to mount another resource in it.)