Anyone ever seen this before...

[Bradley J. Bartram]

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