<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> jludwig wrote: <blockquote cite="mid200505131710.35244.wralphie@comcast.net" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Friday 13 May 2005 04:38 pm, Robert Nichols wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Lokrin wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I have a directory that contains one directory and one file. The problem is that somehow it is recursive. I go into it and it contains it's own directory. Go into that and you get the same thing. The TREE commands keeps going. RM -RF keeps going. Under Konqueror, trying to delete the directory give a status bar and it reaches up to around 15,000 folders at less then 1% done before it freezes. The directoy is not linked in any fashion. How can I get rid of it? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Unmount the file system and run "fsck -f" on it. If you can't unmount the file system, running "shutdown -F -r now" will cause a reboot with a forced fsck. That's overkill, but simple to do. What you are seeing is file system corruption, and fsck should fix it. -- Bob Nichols <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rnichols42@comcast.net">rnichols42@comcast.net</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Thanks I couldn't remember myself. </pre> </blockquote> Thanks all, I've got it fixed now. I shut down and the reboot showed the file system as being ok and passed. I went back to the directory and tried RM -rf name and it took a couple of minutes of wait, but it finally did remove it. As I noted in another message, I think a program went into some loop and created them all beforee it died itself. Thanks again. Lokrin </body> </html>