How to kill a dir? (fixed)

[jdow]

From: "WipeOut" <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net>

> Thanks to everyone for your help..
>
> I could not work out how to umount / so I could run fsck(as was
suggested)..
>
> So I just switched off the PC (not very elegant, I am sure there must be
> a better and safer way) then when it started and was mounting the drive
> it asked to do a full check to which I said yes.. It found errors and I
> then entered the password for root to get into maintainance mode and ran
> "fsck", this found illegal filenames to files that were not visable
> using any "ls" switches that I could find.. it then repaired the illegal
> filenames and then I was able to kill the directory..
>
> Lets hope I never have that again..
>
> Thanks again..
>
> Later..

Fix your machine or it will happen again. Finding more than one such
directory or file indicates your machine hardware is not reliable enough
to use on anything serious.

{^_^}