Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:34:10 -0700 From: "Riley J. McIntire" <rileyjmc@pacbell.net> To: "John Mills" <john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu>, "Riley J. McIntire" <rileyjmc@pacbell.net> Cc: "Beech Rintoul" <akbeech@sinbad.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Can't delete a directory Message-ID: <HEEELMCBPANKADCOBOFPKEMGGIAA.rileyjmc@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0209121012530.4243-100000@otter.mills-atl.com>
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> > > root@wimp:obj# rm -rf usr/ > > rm: usr/fsck_msdosfs: Directory not empty > > rm: usr/: Directory not empty > > root@wimp:obj# > > Sorry - I came in late on this. Even as root! Is this behavior limited to > DOS directories? This isn't a DOS directory, it's the remnants of the last buildworld (this machine is "Build Master" for the other servers on the network). As such, /usr/obj is an NFS export. However, /usr/obj/usr/fsck_msdosfs isn't mounted. And after "umount -at nfs" on the other servers just to make sure the error still occurs. It's not convenient to take this down to single user, and I'm concerned this might be a symptom of a more serious problem, although the logs show nothing. > # consider interactive use here: 'rm -i $FILENAME' > echo "Removing "$FILENAME > rm -f $FILENAME > done > echo "Removing directories below "$1 > rm -rf $1 > fi Seems to me running rm -rf in a script wouldn't do any more than cli. Thanks for the help! Riley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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