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From: Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-xfs@apartia.org>
To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [UNSURE] can't remove dir
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:41:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070914084125.GA31074@apartia.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709140438130.752@p34.internal.lan>

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 04:38:22AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>>
>> While cleaning up /lost+found a directory resisted removal:
>>
>> 	sylla:/lost+found# rm 1879629858 -rf
>> 	rm: cannot remove directory `1879629858': Directory not empty
>>
>> The directory _is_ empty and "-rf" should remove it anyway, so this
>> looks like a fs error.
>>
>> This is on debian unstable with 2.6.23-rc6.
>
> what does "ls -al 1879629858" say?
>

I knew someone would ask, and this is slightly insulting ;-)

sylla:/lost+found# ls -al 1879629858
total 24
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   8192 2007-09-14 09:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 299008 2007-09-14 10:05 ../

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-14  8:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-14  8:09 can't remove dir Louis-David Mitterrand
2007-09-14  8:38 ` [UNSURE] " Justin Piszcz
2007-09-14  8:41   ` Louis-David Mitterrand [this message]
2007-09-14  8:45     ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-14  9:10     ` David Chinner
2007-09-14  9:27       ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2007-09-16 22:32         ` David Chinner
2007-09-18  2:43         ` Barry Naujok
2007-09-14 14:14 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-09-14 14:18   ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-17 16:15   ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2007-10-17 16:18     ` Justin Piszcz
2007-10-17 16:30       ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2007-10-17 21:24     ` David Chinner
2007-10-18 13:11       ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2007-10-18 22:07         ` David Chinner
2007-10-19 10:10           ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2007-10-21 23:50             ` David Chinner
2007-10-22  0:42               ` Barry Naujok
2007-10-22  1:17                 ` David Chinner
2007-10-22  7:04               ` Louis-David Mitterrand
2007-10-18  1:37     ` Barry Naujok

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