From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 12:59: 0 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 1663737B401 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-24-79-198.stny.rr.com [24.24.79.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6411E43E42 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id B4FB04FC88; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:01:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD6BC4A0D; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:01:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:01:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: "Riley J. McIntire" Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: Can't delete a directory In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Riley J. McIntire wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:35:25 -0700 > From: Riley J. McIntire > mv: /bin/rm: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status: Cross-device link > root@wimp:usr# > What is this "Cross-device link" that is causing rm to fail? Do you have a link to another filesystem buried in there? I've had links across filesystems and devices do this before. Try to find out what/where this link is, manually unlink it, and then 'rm -rf' the darn directory. Have you tried a thorough, manual fsck on this partition yet? Perhaps it's a physical disk error. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message