Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 03:25:11 +0000 From: Robert Backhaus <robbak@gmail.com> To: Gregory Nou <gregorynou@altern.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with deleting files Message-ID: <d449958050901202550bd6632@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4316E1A0.8070307@altern.org> References: <4316E1A0.8070307@altern.org>
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On 9/1/05, Gregory Nou <gregorynou@altern.org> wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I'm currently experiencing a weird problem : some of my folders are > 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 > folders, and it is quite rare, but now I cannot update firefox, nor > openoffice, because make clean will fail). >=20 This will happen if you try to delete folders while background fsck is operating. The files are being retained in the "snapshot" of the disk that fsck is cleaning. It will go away once the filesystem checks are finished. You can watch the progress of fstab with "ps -waux |grep fsck".
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