Anyone ever seen this before...

[Robert Dege]

I believe there is an attrib command.  It kinda works similar to
attrib.exe back in the old DOS days.  It _COULD_ be possible that a file
is hidden/protected using attrib.

On the otherhand, your directory could always be on a (ro) mounted
partition.  # mount would provide you with more information about that.


-Rob

> I tried both of those and nothing.  The directory still is laughing at me like
> a pimple on prom night.
>
> I've spent some time scouring the net for some inkling of a solution or
> simliar problem, but there's not much out there regarding this.
>
> fsck in all modes, multi and single user state that the partition is fine and
> healthy.
>
> I know that as a last resort I can get into manually and unlink the
> directories affected, but I'm at a point that I'd like to find a more
> elegant, higher level solution.
>
> brad
>
> On Wednesday 14 May 2003 08:06 am, Darin Perusich wrote:
> > try running lsof /path/to/directory, this will give you a list of open
> > files in the directory. another possibility may be that the directory is
> > a NFS share, or mount point or an automount.
> >
> > it could be an inode problem. try moving the directory to another name,
> > make another directory of the origional name, delete the origional, then
> > the new dir.
> >
> > i've seen this before on solaris systems and one of the above has
> > usually fixed it for me.
> >
> > Bradley J. Bartram wrote:
> > > 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
>
>



Dege

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