Can't remove empty directory
Guillermo Garcia-Rojas
garciarojas at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 15:42:15 PDT 2005
After moving the directory, the system will prompt for a corruption on
the filesystem and a simple fsck, as you say, will fix the problem :)
These are my 2 cents.
On 4/12/05, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 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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Guillermo García Rojas Covarrubias
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