From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 1 16:37:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40F516A41F for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:37:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca [128.100.216.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593FA43D45 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:37:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from fields.fields.utoronto.ca (fields.localdomain [192.168.216.11]) by fileserver.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields 6.0) with ESMTP id j81GbBvf008132 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:37:11 -0400 Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by fields.fields.utoronto.ca (8.12.8/8.12.8/Fields WS 6.0) with ESMTP id j81Gb66P029067; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:37:11 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5C7AC511FD; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:37:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:37:05 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gregory Nou Message-ID: <20050901163705.GA67384@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4316E1A0.8070307@altern.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4316E1A0.8070307@altern.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with deleting files X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 16:37:13 -0000 --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:10:24PM +0200, Gregory Nou wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I'm currently experiencing a weird problem : some of my folders are=20 > completely empty (ls -a doesn't even mention . or ..) > But, I cannot remove them, and a ls is very very slow (but just in those= =20 > folders, and it is quite rare, but now I cannot update firefox, nor=20 > openoffice, because make clean will fail). >=20 > uname -a gives : > FreeBSD *.fr 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Aug 26 10:12:03=20 > CEST 2005 root@*.fr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 >=20 > my questions are : > Is it Freebsd related, or may it be a problem with my hard disk ? > Is there a way to delete, or just unlink a folder, even if it doesn't=20 > appear to be empty ? You forgot to show us the problem, but try unmounting your filesystem and running fsck -f. Kris --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDFy4xWry0BWjoQKURAu9yAJ45+HEA/3xh8ZnpV/zFpY2p8Z/xGQCeME9T PXlutTLLZ8tpEzoQGjTChUg= =NVmc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--