From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 2 20:14:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rm-rstar.sfu.ca (rm-rstar.sfu.ca [142.58.120.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD72837B71A for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tmchow@sfu.ca) Received: from fraser.sfu.ca (tmchow@fraser.sfu.ca [142.58.101.25]) by rm-rstar.sfu.ca (8.10.1/8.10.1/SFU-5.0H) with ESMTP id f234E8W22510 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:14:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (tmchow@localhost) by fraser.sfu.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2/SFU-5.0C) with ESMTP id UAA11206 for ; Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:14:08 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: fraser.sfu.ca: tmchow owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:14:08 -0800 (PST) From: Trevin Chow To: Subject: Can't Delete Directory? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What about the output of `ls -alid r` ? /usr/ports/textproc/aspell/work/aspell-.33/scowl # ls -alid r 206363 drwxr-xr-x 3 500 500 512 Mar 1 20:30 r/ > Have you tried `rm -Rf r` ? /usr/ports/textproc/aspell/work/aspell-.33/scowl # rm -Rf r rm: r: Directory not empty > Did fsck actually fix anything? fsck asked me a few questions about removing corrupted entries and I said yes. One of the files was in this directory. The only reason why I said yes b/c I thought it was safe considering it was in the work directory and I could just rebuidl the port if needed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message