Re: Can't delete directory

[Jesse Goerz <jgoerz@bellsouth.net>]

On Tuesday 27 November 2001 02:14, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am facing a peculiar problem. I am currently running potato.
> Downloaded perl5.6* from testing and started to compile. After
> some 3 or 4 minutes the process aborted (98.41% sucessful) :-(
>
> So, I thought I would just delete the diretory. But a
> directory `t' in perl-5.6.1 is giving trouble. rm ls and du
> produce the same message.
>
>   mas@brahman:~/software/debian/tmp/junk/perl-5.6.1$ rm -rf t/
>   rm: cannot remove `t/big': Value too large for defined data
> type rm: cannot remove directory `t': Directory not empty
>
> Now, how do I get rid of this directory?

maybe..

cp /dev/null ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big

or

cat /dev/null > ~/software/.../perl-5.6.1/t/big

then try rm -rf?

HTH,
Jesse