WipeOut wrote:
Thanks to everyone for your help..
I could not work out how to umount / so I could run fsck(as was suggested)..
So I just switched off the PC (not very elegant, I am sure there must be a better and safer way) then when it started and was mounting the drive it asked to do a full check to which I said yes.. It found errors and I then entered the password for root to get into maintainance mode and ran "fsck", this found illegal filenames to files that were not visable using any "ls" switches that I could find.. it then repaired the illegal filenames and then I was able to kill the directory..
Lets hope I never have that again..
Thanks again..
Later..
Wipeout,
instead of switching off your pc , here's another solution: use your fedora CD/boot disk to boot the machine in rescue mode (linux rescue) . Then , after answering all the questions , you'll be dropped to a shell.. Then you can type "mount" to see all mounted devices and umount those that you need to fsck.. then , you can run fsck safely.. (better than doing a hard reboot)...
Pedro Macedo
