How to kill a dir?

[Gunnar vS Kramm]

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

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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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> > 
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> Yes I am root..
> Output from alias rm..
> [root at dev02 i386]# alias rm
> alias rm='rm -i'
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> I have rebooted the system so I doubt its an open file or a hung process..
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I'm seeing a lot of good suggestion from others on this list.  Just for kicks
try un-aliasing rm
unalias rm
and then do the ls -i
find -inum XXXX -exec rm -rf {} \;

OR 

replace rm -rf with 
rmdir in the find command as someone else on the list suggested.



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