Cannot remove files with any rm commands

[Gavin McDonald]

Just a hunch, but have you checked your file system lately?  I've
seen this kind of behaviour before with unmarked physical damage.

remount the filesystem read-only, and fsck.

if fsck reports nothing, I'm gladly mistaken.  :)  (Nobody likes f/s damage)

Regards,

Gavin McDonald
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> Subject: Cannot remove files with any rm commands
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> I have a weird situation where i have three directories that i need to
> remove but when i do a rm -rf it just says "cannot remove directory -
> Directory not empty" even with 777 permission's on it.
> I think i have a problem with a couple of files that live in the
> directories because when i CD to the directory with the files in. If i do
> an ls i can see the name of the file but if i do ls -al i get an error "
> Cannot access No such file or directory".
> 
> I have tried renaming, moving but had no luck and i need to clear this
> directory structure to carry on doing some more work.
> 
> Has anybody seen this before and how can i rectify this problem? Any help
> is much appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> 
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