Can't remove a directory SUMMARY

From: Cohen, Laurence <Laurence_Cohen_at_sra.com>
Date: Thu Sep 15 2005 - 17:44:08 EDT
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
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