Cannot remove empty directory

[Vu Pham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Michael Hipp
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:30 PM
> To: Linux Users
> Subject: Cannot remove empty directory
> 
> I'm trying to delete an empty directory - normally not a 
> particularly esoteric task :-)
> 
>    $ ls -lah
>    drwx------   1 michael michael    6 2005-06-15 14:10 apps
>    [snip]
>    $ rmdir apps

Try "rm -rf" instead of rmdir. Just do not run it at root level :-)



>    rmdir: `apps': Directory not empty
>    $ ls -la apps
>    total 4
>    drwx------   1 michael michael    6 2005-06-15 14:10 .
>    drwxr-xr-x  20 michael michael 4096 2005-06-15 14:10 ..
>    $ rm -drf apps
>    rm: cannot remove directory `apps': Directory not empty
>    $ rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty apps
>    $ ls -lah
>    drwx------   2 michael michael   17 2005-06-15 14:15 apps
>    [snip]
> 
> Can't do it as root either. It's empty but it ain't ("total 
> 4"). What gives?
> 
> Michael
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