On Friday 13 May 2005 04:38 pm, Robert Nichols wrote: > Lokrin wrote: > > I have a directory that contains one directory and one file. The problem > > is that somehow it is recursive. I go into it and it contains it's own > > directory. Go into that and you get the same thing. The TREE commands > > keeps going. RM -RF keeps going. Under Konqueror, trying to delete the > > directory give a status bar and it reaches up to around 15,000 folders > > at less then 1% done before it freezes. > > > > The directoy is not linked in any fashion. How can I get rid of it? > > Unmount the file system and run "fsck -f" on it. If you can't unmount > the file system, running "shutdown -F -r now" will cause a reboot with > a forced fsck. That's overkill, but simple to do. What you are seeing > is file system corruption, and fsck should fix it. > > -- > Bob Nichols rnichols42@xxxxxxxxxxx Thanks I couldn't remember myself. -- John H Ludwig Common sense is so rare, why do they call it common!!! I'm not schitziod! I got better tomorrow.
