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From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: "Rafa Grimán" <rafagriman@gmail.com>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Empty dir can't be removed ... because it's not empty?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:58:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120110205854.GA13261@x4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201201102126.35268.rafagriman@gmail.com>

On 2012.01.10 at 21:26 +0100, Rafa Grimán wrote:
> Hi all :)
> 
> My /home is on an XFS partition all to it's own. The other day the lights went 
> out and when I rebooted, there's an empty directory that can't be erased. This 
> directory is a subdirectory in ~/.kde4/
> 
> The funny thing about this is that I can rename the directory, but I can't 
> delete it:
> 
> Any idea of what's going on?
> Any tool I can use to understand what's happening?

Try to run xfs_repair on that partition.

-- 
Markus

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-10 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-10 20:26 Empty dir can't be removed ... because it's not empty? Rafa Grimán
2012-01-10 20:58 ` Markus Trippelsdorf [this message]
2012-01-10 22:10 ` Dave Chinner
2012-01-11 18:28   ` Rafa Grimán

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