Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 23:34:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Paul DuBois <dubois@primate.wisc.edu> To: metcalf@imagine.com (Jeffrey M. Metcalf) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unremovable directories Message-ID: <199608310434.XAA01509@night.primate.wisc.edu> In-Reply-To: <3227B030.41C67EA6@imagine.com> from "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" at Aug 30, 96 11:23:28 pm
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>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. This may not solve your problem, but some versions of rm will not remove a directory if you specify a trailing slash on the end of the name. Try "rm -rf unremovable" instead.
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