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- From: bgarrett@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil (Brian S. Garrett)
- Subject: Re: Unremovable directory.
- Message-ID: <By6xq1.J8s@ra.nrl.navy.mil>
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- Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
- References: <1992Nov20.225332.17548@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 22:42:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov20.225332.17548@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, vsnyder@math.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes:
- > I have a directory that has exactly two members: . and ..
- > But the link count for . is 3. find can't find any other names
- > that refer to the same inode number, or are linked to the name.
- > So how can I remove the directory? I already did "reboot -n"
- > to force fsck to run. It fixed a few things, but not this
- > problem.
-
- Did you try an:
- rm -rf directory_name
-
-
- Brian S. Garrett
- bgarrett@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil
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