[Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7

[David Champion]

Try rebooting in "single" mode, or boot from a live media like TRK (Trinity
Rescue Kit), mount the drive and try deleting the files. TRK uses busybox,
so some commands may not work the way you're used to.

Try a tool like mc (midnight commander).

-dc


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Matt Stanton <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:

> Any time I've ever had trouble deleting a directory in a
> non-Microsoft-created filesystem, it has been for one of two reasons:
>
> 1 - The directory serves as a mount-point for a currently-mounted
> filesystem
>
> 2 - I have a terminal open, and the pwd of that terminal is inside of that
> directory (including instances of screen that are not currently attached,
> or I have started a screen process inside of that directory and the pwd of
> that screen terminal is outside of that directory structure, so I have the
> fact that that dir structure is in use behind my instance of screen).
>
> I don't have much experience with Samba, as I prefer to use sftp/scp
> whenever possible (which is possible on Windows with the help of cygwin).
> It is amazing to use sshmount to mount a Windows filesystem on a Linux
> filesystem for media sharing or vice versa for doing web development and
> being able to work with the files on the webserver in a more native-feeling
> fashion.
>
> I figure you've probably rebooted in between tries to delete this
> directory, so open screen instances or minimized terminal windows probably
> isn't your problem.  The only other directory I have ever had a problem
> deleting was the ".gvfs" directory in my own home directory, which, for
> some reason, root couldn't even delete (I guess gnome was probably using it
> at the time -- or is always using it when you have gnome running).  You
> might, however, check that you don't have any strange mountpoints out
> there, though.
>
> If the filesystem in which that directory exists is mounted over Samba,
> then I'm not sure what the rules are at that point (does that dir have
> something to do with Samba?  It looks a lot like a Windows user
> directory... is it a backup of a Windows machine?).
>
> -- Matt (N0BOX)
>
> Sent from my ASUS Transformer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Houk <houk.ron at gmail.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7
>
> Tom,
>
> To use the find command to try to strip off the directory cd into the
> directory above it ( V6 )
>
>
>
> and then run
>
> find . -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
>
> I think the way you ran it before with
>
>
> find Portal -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
> it was saying "look inside of directory 'Portal' and delete any
> directories inside it."
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:
>
> > On 08/21/2014 07:47 PM, Tom Pohl wrote:
> > > Can you try to mv the folder to a higher level like
> > /usr/local/samba/public/extended/
> > >
> > > -Tom
> >
> > rm -rf can get hung up on unusual filenames, but "find" isn't as finicky.
> >
> > Just try:
> >
> >   find /dir -type f -exec rm {} \;
> >
> > Watch for error messages - they'll expose the culprit.  The above will
> > leave all of the directories in place though.
> >
> > If it goes through, you can also try clipping all directories one-deep:
> >
> >   find /dir -type d -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf {} \;
> >
> >
> > --
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