Re: Problems with deleting directories

[MichaelM <lordvader@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I once had a similar problem. It wasn't due to the filesystem, but rather a 
filename got currupted, and ended up with a "/" in the name. "/" is an 
illegal character in filenames, so the file couldn't be deleted, renamed, 
nothing. I had to format the drive to remove the file. An "ls -la" did show 
the file however, but the other symptoms seem similar ......

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 09:01 pm, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm running XFS with a 2.6.5 kernel. While trying to delete
> several directories with rm -rf I get "Directory not empty", but
> ls -la doesn't show a file.
>
> Also xfs_check doesn't help. What can this be?
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian