From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 21: 1:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AD037B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.austclear.com.au (ns1.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CE643E6A for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 21:01:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns1.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8C41nH20304; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:01:49 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA23152; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:01:49 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200209120401.OAA23152@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Riley J. McIntire" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Re: Can't delete a directory In-Reply-To: Message from "Riley J. McIntire" of "Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:39:01 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 14:01:49 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rileyjmc@pacbell.net said: > root@wimp:obj# rm -rf usr/ > rm: usr/fsck_msdosfs: Directory not empty > rm: usr/: Directory not empty > root@wimp:obj# You aren't somehow using using usr/fsck_msdosfs in some file system operation, like using it as a mount point? If you had something mounted you wouldn't be able to delete the directory. Just a guess... Tony -- Tony Landells Principal Networks, Security & IT Systems Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message