Re: how to remove ? directory

[Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:16 PM, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied
>
> d?????????   ? ?    ?          ?            ? .gvfs
>
> a# rm -rf .gvfs
> rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory
>
>
> any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I
> tried to mount the iphone.
>
> Thanks ahead for your advice,
>
> Best regards,

I suppose you tried rmdir and was told the directory was not empty.

But why all the '?' where things like permissions and access dates and
such should be? I don't think it's either a directory or a file. Where
is it and how did it get there?

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Joel Rees

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