How to kill a dir? (fixed)

[WipeOut]

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..