Anyone ever seen this before...

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Tue May 13 21:17:37 EDT 2003


I would try (as root) the ol' rm -rf magic :)
On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 20:26, Bradley J. Bartram wrote:
> Hello all - 
> 
> I've got an interesting situation that I wanted to see if anyone has ever seen 
> before.
> 
> On a red hat 7.3 system with ext3, I have a directory that just won't delete.  
> Keep getting the error:
> 
> rm: cannot remove directory 'foo' : Directory not empty
> 
> The directory, however, is empty.
> 
> I've taken the partition where this directory lives and mounted it read only 
> then run fsck against it.  Nothing, no problems reported.  I then figured I'd 
> move the dir to another part of the system and try removing it there.  THe 
> directory won't move off it's partition, which says to me it's partition 
> related.
> 
> I can't seem to find anything in several attempts to google the answer.  So it 
> leaves me asking the question, has anyone seen this before and if so can you 
> lead me in a direction to attempt a solution?
> 
> thanks
> 
> brad
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