On Friday 17 July 2009 12:06:34 am you wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
I must have had a script go bad and completely screw up a file or two in a directory and now I cannot "ls" the directory, I cannot "rm -rf" the directory, but I can "mv" the directory and I can "cd" into the directory.
Interesting issue! Did you try to mount an USB flash disk, "mv" the buggy directory to the flash disk, and do mkdosfs on the USB flash disk? If it can be moved, it must can be removed.
Yes, I first thought about moving to /dev/null, but that didn't work. I could move it to another directory (i.e. "mv V1 V2) as long as it was on the same partition. I attempted to move it to /tmp and let the scheduled clean up take care of it, but since /tmp is on the / partition, the mv stalled trying to copy across filesystem boundaries. (I now think the stalling was just the time it was taking to delete) So far things are getting deleted (very slowly) with mc, so I'm just going to let it run for now. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org