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Subject: RE: Can't delete a directory
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Riley -

On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Riley J. McIntire wrote:

> > # 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.

At that point the script has emptied the directories of files, but not
directories. The script doesn't remove directories from the bottom
upwards, so you're probably right that it wouldn't work.

Can you manually go to a leaf directory, empty it, then backup one and
remove it?

Can you turn off the exportation, then try the simple 'rm -rf'?

How about 'umount' this partition (slice?), re'mount' it on a generic
mount-point, then removing what you need to? Afterward you would
presumably reverse the process and export the new branch.

DISCLAIMER: I'm only guessing here.

 - John Mills


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