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Re: Cannot delete a directory on a XFS file system

To: "Grozdan Nikolov (openSUSE Linux)" <microchip@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Cannot delete a directory on a XFS file system
From: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 14:49:30 -0500 (EST)
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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)
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

If you give them this information in advance they'll have more info to help you.

Justin.


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