Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 19:51:07 -0400 From: "Jan T Pajak" <jan@cable.com> To: <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Fw: Directory removal problem. Message-ID: <033c01bdb75d$ede15110$c8c8c8c8@korgi.cable.com>
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Is it possible you were playing the game, and left an executing process whose current directory was within the hierarchy you were trying to remove? -----Original Message----- From: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Date: Friday, July 24, 1998 7:35 PM Subject: Directory removal problem. >I am running current from about 2 days ago. > >I was moving my ports directory from one disk to another and all >seemed to go well except that the directory ports/games/xpat2 >wasn't removed from the first disk. Even when I try to rm -R as >root, it says: > > rm: /usr/d2/ports/games/xpat2/: Directory not empty > rm: /usr/d2/ports/games: Directory not empty > rm: /usr/d2/ports: Directory not empty > >xpat2 looks empty to me: > > ls -Rl /usr/d2/ports > total 2 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 2048 Jul 24 18:58 games > > /usr/d2/ports/games: > total 1 > drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Jul 24 19:01 xpat2 > > /usr/d2/ports/games/xpat2: > >I always worried that rm -Rf as root was dangerous. Now I can't >even remove an empty directory with it. > >Any ideas? > >Greg > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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