Anyone ever seen this before...

[Mark Musone]

Boot into single user mode and try it that way..

-Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Bradley J. Bartram
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 10:02 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: Anyone ever seen this before...

It gives the same results.  That's why I'm slightly stumped.

brad

On Tuesday 13 May 2003 09:17 pm, Cyber Source wrote:
> 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