From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 10:41:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tasam.com (tasam.com [206.161.83.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9F1152B5 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:41:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Received: from bug (hc6526b25.dhcp.vt.edu [198.82.107.37]) by tasam.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA11211 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:41:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from clash@tasam.com) Message-ID: <009c01beffa1$87538d90$256b52c6@tasam.com> From: "Joe Gleason" To: Subject: Removing very long paths Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:39:55 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Suppose a user messed up something and accidentaly created a directory and in this directory created anouther directory and in that directory created anouther directory....repeat about 90,000 times. Here are some commands run from right below this mess: bash-2.03# find .|wc 94330 422626 13697024 Segmentation fault find and du seg fault. When I try to rm -rf the entire tree from the bottom: rm -rf says: bash-2.03# rm -rf 827 rm: 827/ YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE! /AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/ YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE! /AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/ YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE! /AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/ YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE! /AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: File name too long rm: 827/ YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE! /AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA: Directory not empty rm: 827/ YOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE! : Directory not empty rm: 827: Directory not empty Yes, the directories alternate between a long string of A's and \nYOUR PUBLIC SSH1 KEY (-b 512) GOES HERE!\n Anyone have any ideas other than fsck on how to remove this? Joe Gleason Tasam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message