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I have tried to delete none active users from the server, when I ran: 

/usr/sbin/userdel -r

delete the user but not a home directory, and got this error:

cannot remove ‘olduser/.bash_history’: Operation not permitted

I have tried to remove manually as root:

rm -fR olduser

I got the same not permitted. What else I can try to remove this user home directories?

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  • Is the home directory an NFS-mounted file system? What does lsattr ~olduser/.bash_history say? – MadHatter Aug 15 '16 at 16:02
  • are you running commands as root? – alexus Aug 15 '16 at 16:05
  • not nfs mounted. lsattr output = -------------e-- .bash_history. yes I am running as root. – user559452 Aug 15 '16 at 16:23
  • what are the normal permissions with ls -la – xguru Aug 15 '16 at 17:03
  • also could you give the output from mount | grep "^/dev" – xguru Aug 15 '16 at 17:11
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after few search. I did 

  lsattr .bash_history

and return

----a-------e-- .bash_history

so, I have run 

chattr -a

after that I am able to delete .bash_history

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