[Sunhelp] Help: Can't remove directory

The Archimage sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sun Oct 29 06:40:15 CST 2000


Why are there 80 links to the test directory?

Archimage

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Tim Chong wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Can someone help me? I can't seem to remove this directory:
> 
> # pwd
> /export/home/ab2/dweb/data
> # ls -la
> total 10
> drwxrwxrwx   3 root     root         512 Oct 29 18:06 .
> drwxrwxrwx   3 root     root         512 Oct 29 16:46 ..
> drwxrwxrwx  80 root     root        3072 Oct 29 16:47 test
> # rm -rf test
> rm: Unable to remove directory test: File exists
> # cd test
> # ls -la
> total 8
> drwxrwxrwx  80 root     root        3072 Oct 29 16:47 .
> drwxrwxrwx   3 root     root         512 Oct 29 18:06 ..
> # 
> It's seem there's something in test, but what? I can't see it, and I can't
> remove /export/home/ab2, because of test.
> 
> Any clue? I have tried doing so in Single user mode but failed, FYI: it's
> Solaris 8 SPARC.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Tim
> 




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