How to kill a dir?

[Nix, Robert P.]

Go where all this is happening and try "ls -b". This will list what is in the directory printing the octal for any nongraphic characters used in the file names. This may give a clue as to what has happened to the directory and / or anything that might be in it.

Also, the file keeping the directory from being removed could be an open file that is being created and has never been closed. From root, try lsof and look for the directory in the list of currently open files. You might have to get rid of a task before being able to remove the directory.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alexander Dalloz [SMTP:alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de]
> Sent:	Monday, January 05, 2004 1:28 PM
> To:	fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject:	Re: How to kill a dir?
> 
> Am Mo, den 05.01.2004 schrieb WipeOut um 20:10:
> > Gerry Maddock wrote:
> > 
> > >If that doesn't work try:
> > >chattr -R -i test/;rm rf test/
> > >
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > 
> > Got the following output..
> > 
> > [root at dev02 i386]# chattr -R -i test/;rm -rf test/
> > chattr: Too many open files while reading flags on 
> > test/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////!
//!
> //!
> > /////////////////////////////////////
> > rm: cannot remove directory `test/': Directory not empty
> 
> God, what the hell did you do with that test directory?
> 
> find test -name "*" print0 | xargs -0 \
>       chattr -i
> chattr -i test; rm -rf test
> 
> \ means no break but wrapped single line
> 
> Alexander
> 
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