Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:23:28 -0400 From: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" <metcalf@imagine.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Unremovable directories Message-ID: <3227B030.41C67EA6@imagine.com>
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Hello, I was recently doing some system maintenance when I accidentally corrupted a directory entry. Apparently some of the symbolic links I was making caused the corruption. Now when I perform the following: rm -rf unremovable/ I get rm: unremovable/: Directory not empty The directory is owned by root and I am performing the rm command as root. Clearly the directory is empty (rm -rf emptied it). Is there some way to remove this entry by referring specifically to its inode? I hope not to have to rebuild the filesystem. The directory entry is not entirely corrupt in the sense that I can copy files into it and remove files from it and I can move it around. It seems to be linked to another directory in some way. That directory is also unremovable. Hope someone can help. Thank You -- Jeffrey M. Metcalf 200 Ridgefield Drive Middletown, CT 06457 metcalf@imagine.com
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