recursive directory
Lokrin
redhat at lokrin.net
Sat May 14 03:27:06 UTC 2005
jludwig wrote:
>On Friday 13 May 2005 04:38 pm, Robert Nichols wrote:
>
>
>>Lokrin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have a directory that contains one directory and one file. The problem
>>>is that somehow it is recursive. I go into it and it contains it's own
>>>directory. Go into that and you get the same thing. The TREE commands
>>>keeps going. RM -RF keeps going. Under Konqueror, trying to delete the
>>>directory give a status bar and it reaches up to around 15,000 folders
>>>at less then 1% done before it freezes.
>>>
>>>The directoy is not linked in any fashion. How can I get rid of it?
>>>
>>>
>>Unmount the file system and run "fsck -f" on it. If you can't unmount
>>the file system, running "shutdown -F -r now" will cause a reboot with
>>a forced fsck. That's overkill, but simple to do. What you are seeing
>>is file system corruption, and fsck should fix it.
>>
>>--
>>Bob Nichols rnichols42 at comcast.net
>>
>>
>Thanks I couldn't remember myself.
>
>
Thanks all, I've got it fixed now. I shut down and the reboot showed
the file system as being ok and passed. I went back to the directory
and tried
RM -rf name
and it took a couple of minutes of wait, but it finally did remove it.
As I noted in another message, I think a program went into some loop and
created them all beforee it died itself.
Thanks again.
Lokrin
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