How to kill a dir?

[Gunnar vS Kramm]

Original e-mail from: WipeOut (wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net):

> Gunnar vS Kramm wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >Perhaps you can delete it using the inode number.  Try this:
> >ls -i
> >you should get something line this
> >4529682 file1  4529681 test
> >(the numbers you get will be different).
> >then do this:
> >find . -inum 4529681 -exec rm -rf {} \;
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> >
> Still no luck..
> 
> [root at dev02 i386]# ls -i
> ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
> 799769 test
> [root at dev02 i386]# find . -inum 799769 -exec rm -rf {} \;
> rm: cannot remove directory `./test': Directory not empty
> find: ./??*?: No such file or directory
> [root at dev02 i386]# ls
> ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
> test
> 
> 
> Guess I will just have to abandon that directory tree until I rebuild 
> the system one day..
> 
> 
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Naw let's not let Fedora get the best of us.  Two questions;
1. are you doing this as root?
2. is your rm command aliased to something else? (try "alias rm" to check).


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