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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