Re: Problems with deleting directories

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:43:28AM +1000, MichaelM wrote:

> 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.

Formatting is pretty drastic.  You could just find out which block the
filename is in and poke that with hexedit or similar.