Anyone ever seen this before...

Bradley J. Bartram bradbartram at ccsisp.com
Tue May 13 20:26:28 EDT 2003


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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