Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:34:00 -0700 (PDT) From: dpk <dpk@dpk.net> To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is stuck here?! Message-ID: <20050823083301.B20562@shared10.hosting.flyingcroc.net> In-Reply-To: <20050823104057.A7FCA4BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050823104057.A7FCA4BEAD@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > > hello! > > how come *nothing* happens when i rm -rf directory/? > it just won't move ... > > top from another terminal tells me: > 55272 root 116 0 14396K 13768K RUN 0:27 36.13% 35.40% rm > > what? the directory/ only contains a .maildir/, a .muttrc and an empty directory > it's not an immutable flag that has been set, > chflags -R nouchg directory/ stands equally still to rm -rf It's probably busy calculating the list of directory entries to remove. If you have /proc mounted try: truss -p 55272 to see what it is doing. If you don't, and you have KTRACE in your kernel, you can try: ktrace -i -d -p 55272 kdump -l to monitor the process.
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