Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 04:07:00 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Trevin Chow <trevin@mail.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't delete an empty directory? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103020404340.84311-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010301202957.0254ccd0@mail.brightmail.com>
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Trevin Chow wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > For some reason I cannot remove a directory even though there are no files > in it. I recently had to run "fsck" manually as my machine had a "kernel > panic" . These events must be related. Here's some output of what's happened: > > /usr/ports/textproc/aspell/work/aspell-.33/scowl/r # ls -al > total 2 > drwxr-xr-x 3 500 500 512 Mar 1 20:30 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 3 500 500 512 Mar 1 20:30 ../ > > /usr/ports/textproc/aspell/work/aspell-.33/scowl # rmdir r > rmdir: r: Directory not empty > > Any ideas what might be causing this? What about the output of `ls -alid r` ? Have you tried `rm -Rf r` ? Did fsck actually fix anything? - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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