Anyone ever seen this before...

[Darin Perusich]

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
>>
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Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com