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Date:      Thu, 1 Sep 2005 12:37:05 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gregory Nou <gregorynou@altern.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problem with deleting files
Message-ID:  <20050901163705.GA67384@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4316E1A0.8070307@altern.org>
References:  <4316E1A0.8070307@altern.org>

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On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 01:10:24PM +0200, Gregory Nou wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I'm currently experiencing a weird problem : some of my folders are=20
> completely empty (ls -a doesn't even mention . or ..)
> But, I cannot remove them, and a ls is very very slow (but just in those=
=20
> folders, and it is quite rare, but now I cannot update firefox, nor=20
> openoffice, because make clean will fail).
>=20
> uname -a gives :
> FreeBSD *.fr 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Aug 26 10:12:03=20
> CEST 2005     root@*.fr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL  i386
>=20
> my questions are :
> Is it Freebsd related, or may it be a problem with my hard disk ?
> Is there a way to delete, or just unlink a folder, even if it doesn't=20
> appear to be empty ?

You forgot to show us the problem, but try unmounting your filesystem
and running fsck -f.

Kris

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