[Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7

[Tom Sellers]

Here is the result of what you asked.

+find . -type d -mindepth 1 maxdepth 1 -exec rm -rf '{}' ';'
rm: cannot remove directory './Portal'; Directory not empty

In answer to some of the other questions asked:

Yes.  I believe that this directory was created by samba.  It was a backup of a directory from a
Windows XP machine.

I have rebooted several time including the time when I had the fsck function run at reboot.

Have not tried a live version of Linux at this point.
 



________________________________
 From: Ron Houk <houk.ron at gmail.com>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Unable to remove a directory in RedHat7
  

That's odd.  Could you try it again but put bash in echo mode by typing
'bash -x' first and then running the command from the V6 folder?  Then post
the output?


On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Tom Sellers <tomsellers2001 at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I ran it as you state below and the response is:
>
> find: paths must precede expression
>
> Ran it as root.
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Ron Houk <houk.ron at gmail.com>
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 2:51 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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