Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a small problem with XFS on a small 40 GB IDE disk that I use for my
>> music collection. The disk (/dev/hdb) has only one partition on it formatted
>> as XFS. On this partition, there is a directory that no matter what I do, I
>> cannot delete it. I tried everything, in Konqueror, right-click on the
>> directory and choose to delete it. As root on the console
>> doing "rm -rf /media/data/DATA/MusicApps" ... but nothing works.
>>
>> When I try to "rm -rf" on this directory I get a message saying...
>>
>> rm: cannot remove directory `MusicApps/Loops/loops/Acid Loops/Bass':
>> Directory
>> not empty
>>
>> But the "Bass" directory is completely empty, there's nothing in there. Also
>> when I unmount the file system and do a "xfs_check /dev/hdb1" I get a message
>> saying...
>>
>> link count mismatch for inode 184549517 (name ?), nlink 3, counted 2
>>
>> I did several times "xfs_repair /dev/hdb1" but I still get the same result.
>> xfs_check reports the same message and I still can't get rid of this empty
>> directory. I'm using kernel 2.6.24-rc7, but it's the same with other kernels.
>> I also did check the partition for bad block with the "badblocks" program,
>> but nothing came out, so the disk is just fine.
>>
>> Any ideas how I can delete this directory?
>>
>>
>
> The developers get in on Monday :P
>
> But some things they will ask:
>
> 1. run xfs_info /dev/hdb1
> 2. run (and capture the full output from the repair process)
... with very latest xfsprogs please. If latest repair doesn't fix it,
using xfs_metadump to provide a filesystem image for Barry to reproduce
with would be helpful.
> 3. run ls -lR on the dir that has problems
> 4. run ls -li on the director(ies) that cannot be deleted for the inode #s
ls -a on the dir to be sure there are no hidden dotfiles
ls -id on the dir to see if it is inode 184549517
-Eric
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