Re: Not able to erase an empty directory... ?
Ignacio,
You can try ls -a to see if there are any hidden files. To remove
the directory you can use the -R switch to rm that makes it recursive,
i.e. rm -fR /usr/local/Windows, and that should do it. Still should be
as root though.
Regards.
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 14:48, Ignacio Más Ivars wrote:
> Hi, all:
>
> I have a really weird behaviour in my Debian box. I wanted to clean out
> today the wine installation that I have removing all the installed
> Windows programs under /usr/local/Windows.... so I just cd ther and rm
> -r as root... The funny thing is the the 'Program files' subdirectory
> cannot be erased because it complains that 'Program files\Accesories' is
> not empty! I have moved there as root and looked inside and there is
> nothing in the directory... I have even use Midnight Commander to look
> for a weird hidden file or subdir and I see absolutely nothing, yet, 'rm
> -r -f' as root complains that the subdir is not empty... Have I been
> hacked some way is there a way to check the content of the filesystem in
> a reliable manner? Can I do any other kind of test? or is there a way to
> force (more than rm -f) the erasing of a directory? I have even upgraded
> the package of coreutils, to get a new binary for ls, just in case it
> had been tampered with... and it still it shows nothing but I am unable
> to erase it...
>
> Any suggestions?
> Please, Cc: to my mail!
> Thanks in advance for the help!
>
> /Nacho
>
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