How to kill a dir?

Gunnar vS Kramm gkramm at speakeasy.net
Mon Jan 5 19:25:33 UTC 2004


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

> 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
> 
> 
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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 {} \;



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