Re: root can not delete a directory ,why?

[Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@sbcglobal.net>]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:53, Realos wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > I am completely at loss. I can not delete following empty directory
> > as root.
> >
> > drwxrwxrwx   2 root root   8192 Dec 21 18:14 kolab
> >
> > I tried "rm -rf kolab", "rmdir -f kolab", "rm -fd kolab" but nothing
> > works.
> > Error message is:
> >
> > rm: cannot remove directory `kolab': Device or resource busy
>
> Humm, you weren't perchance cd'd into the directory?

Makes no difference. The cwd is a shell thing, not an OS thing
(unlike with MSDOS and Windows). It's just some shorthand
for telling the shell how to do globbing.

Mike
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