From: "Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)" <microchip@telenet.be>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Cannot delete a directory on a XFS file system
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:23:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200801131723.12626.microchip@telenet.be> (raw)
Hi,
I have a small problem with XFS on a small 40 GB IDE disk that I use for my
music collection. The disk (/dev/hdb) has only one partition on it formatted
as XFS. On this partition, there is a directory that no matter what I do, I
cannot delete it. I tried everything, in Konqueror, right-click on the
directory and choose to delete it. As root on the console
doing "rm -rf /media/data/DATA/MusicApps" ... but nothing works.
When I try to "rm -rf" on this directory I get a message saying...
rm: cannot remove directory `MusicApps/Loops/loops/Acid Loops/Bass': Directory
not empty
But the "Bass" directory is completely empty, there's nothing in there. Also
when I unmount the file system and do a "xfs_check /dev/hdb1" I get a message
saying...
link count mismatch for inode 184549517 (name ?), nlink 3, counted 2
I did several times "xfs_repair /dev/hdb1" but I still get the same result.
xfs_check reports the same message and I still can't get rid of this empty
directory. I'm using kernel 2.6.24-rc7, but it's the same with other kernels.
I also did check the partition for bad block with the "badblocks" program,
but nothing came out, so the disk is just fine.
Any ideas how I can delete this directory?
next reply other threads:[~2008-01-13 16:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-13 16:23 Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux) [this message]
2008-01-13 19:49 ` Cannot delete a directory on a XFS file system Justin Piszcz
2008-01-13 21:26 ` Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)
2008-01-13 21:27 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-01-13 21:38 ` Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)
2008-01-13 21:51 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-01-13 22:56 ` Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)
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