Pretty simple. Corrupted file system, and the . And .. Files went missing for some reason. I was able to run fsck with the file system mounted and this restored the missing . And .. Files. I was then able to delete the directory. > _____________________________________________ > From: Cohen, Laurence > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 5:27 PM > To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' > Subject: Can't remove a directory > > I've having a problem with a Solaris 8 system where I can't remove a > directory in /var/tmp. I also noticed that the . And .. Files are > missing from this directory. If I try to do an rm -r of the directory > it says, "Can't remove directory xxxx, file exists". If I try to > remove a higher level directory I get "rm: cannot change to parent of > directory yyyy/xxxx: No such file or directory. Anybody have a clue? > > Laurence H. Cohen > ISM Unix System Administrator > (703)653-5371 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Sep 15 17:44:43 2005
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