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Date:      Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:01:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        "Riley J. McIntire" <rileyjmc@pacbell.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Can't delete a directory
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209121556020.2622-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <HEEELMCBPANKADCOBOFPIEMNGIAA.rileyjmc@pacbell.net>

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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Riley J. McIntire wrote:
> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 12:35:25 -0700
> From: Riley J. McIntire <rileyjmc@pacbell.net>
<big-time snippage>

> mv: /bin/rm: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status: Cross-device link
> root@wimp:usr#
> 

What is this "Cross-device link" that is causing rm to fail? Do you have a 
link to another filesystem buried in there? I've had links across 
filesystems and devices do this before. Try to find out what/where this 
link is, manually unlink it, and then 'rm -rf' the darn directory. 

Have you tried a thorough, manual fsck on this partition yet? Perhaps it's 
a physical disk error.



#  John Bleichert 
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