Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 18:20:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de (Lars Koeller) Cc: metcalf@imagine.com, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unremovable directories Message-ID: <199608311620.SAA28042@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <199608311151.NAA29998@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> from Lars Koeller at "31. Aug. 96 13:51:15"
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> > I was recently doing some system maintenance when I accidentally
> > corrupted a directory entry.
> > Apparently some of the symbolic links I was making caused the
> > corruption. Now when I perform
> > the following:
> >
> > rm -rf unremovable/
> >
> > I get
> >
> > rm: unremovable/: Directory not empty
> >
> > The directory is owned by root and I am performing the rm command as
> > root.
I remember having had this problem with rm on FreeBSD-2.0.5
rm -rf unremovable/ gave always 'Directory not empty'
whereas 'rm -rf unremovable', 'rmdir unremovable', and 'rmdir unremovable/'
worked fine.
Does this apply to you ?
Robert
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