How to kill a dir?

Mon Jan 5 20:09:27 UTC 2004

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:09, WipeOut wrote:
> I have a dir that I can't seem to delete and is giving strange errors..
> 
> [root at dev02 i386]# ls
> ls: ??*?: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character
> test
> [root at dev02 i386]# rm -rf test
> rm: cannot remove directory `test': Directory not empty
> [root at dev02 i386]# cd test
> [root at dev02 test]# ls
> ls: : No such file or directory
> 
> Anyone got any super commands for getting rid of a directory that just 
> will not go?

If everything else fails, I recommend using "fsck" to checl the
filesystem integrity.