Empty dir can't be removed ... because it's not empty?

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2012.01.10 at 21:26 +0100, Rafa Grimán wrote:
> Hi all :)
> 
> My /home is on an XFS partition all to it's own. The other day the lights went 
> out and when I rebooted, there's an empty directory that can't be erased. This 
> directory is a subdirectory in ~/.kde4/
> 
> The funny thing about this is that I can rename the directory, but I can't 
> delete it:
> 
> Any idea of what's going on?
> Any tool I can use to understand what's happening?

Try to run xfs_repair on that partition.

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Markus