[Balug-talk] A stuck directory problem

[Andy W. Schmeder]

Nevermind... damned Reiserfs was corrupted.  Had to rebuild the tree, 
which takes forever...  I've never had these kind of problems with 
ext3.  I'll be officially crossing reiser off my list of "production" 
file systems.


Andy W. Schmeder wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I have a question about a very silly situation.
>
> There is a directory in my homedir called '.Trash'.  The *directory* 
> is 3.2 gigabytes -- it does not contain any files....  and I can't 
> delete it... rm -rf, rmdir, root permissions, nothing will work.
>
> rm -rf says this:
>
> rm: cannot remove directory `.Trash': Directory not empty.
>
> My backup system is choking on this file because its too big, and I 
> can't get it to go away.
>
> I suspect that the file was created by Mac OS/X Finder via the SMB 
> mount (the homedir is hosted on my Debian server), but Finder refuses 
> to acknowlege its trash, and rm on the Mac cannot delete it, either.
>
> Please help!
>
>
> Frustrated,
> Andy.
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