Cannot remove empty directory

Alma J Wetzker almaw
Wed Jun 15 18:14:16 PDT 2005


A. Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is it possible to do 'xfs_check' while running
> 
> 
> No - fsck usually wants to work with the file-systems unmounted...

You need to say that again, *LOUDER*.

Attempting to do a file system check on a mounted file system equals a 
Ghostbuster "bad".  It usually results in a totally corrupted partition 
with the directory database completely scrambled.  (Don't ask me how I 
know...)

     -- Alma


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