Can't remove empty directory
Kris Kennaway
kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Apr 12 15:33:28 PDT 2005
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:14:12PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 1024 Apr 12 10:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 12 10:06 ..
> drwxr--r-- 4 root wheel 0 Apr 12 09:51 gail
> p4# chflags -R noschg gail
> p4# rm -r gail
> rm: gail: Directory not empty
> p4# rm gail
> rm: gail: is a directory
> p4# rmdir gail
> rmdir: gail: Directory not empty
> p4#
>
> The obvious problem is that the number of links is incorrect but I don't
> know how to make that right.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
Unmount the filesystem and run fsck to repair the filesystem
corruption.
Kris
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