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Date:      Tue, 12 Apr 2005 17:42:14 -0500
From:      Guillermo Garcia-Rojas <garciarojas@gmail.com>
To:        f-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can't remove empty directory
Message-ID:  <397b2cad05041215421f6b705a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050412223327.GB71285@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <425C4834.2090909@gmail.com> <20050412223327.GB71285@xor.obsecurity.org>

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After moving the directory, the system will prompt for a corruption on
the filesystem and a simple fsck, as you say, will fix the problem :)

These are my 2 cents.

On 4/12/05, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:14:12PM -1000, Robert Marella wrote:
>=20
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  1024 Apr 12 10:06 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel   512 Apr 12 10:06 ..
> > drwxr--r--  4 root  wheel     0 Apr 12 09:51 gail
> > p4# chflags -R noschg gail
> > p4# rm -r gail
> > rm: gail: Directory not empty
> > p4# rm gail
> > rm: gail: is a directory
> > p4# rmdir gail
> > rmdir: gail: Directory not empty
> > p4#
> >
> > The obvious problem is that the number of links is incorrect but I don'=
t
> > know how to make that right.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
>=20
> Unmount the filesystem and run fsck to repair the filesystem
> corruption.
>=20
> Kris
>=20
>=20
>=20


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