On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 04:55:04AM +0200, L A wrote: > Hi, > My computer has crashed last day. Now I can't open the > file in wich I was working. I can't also open > thunderbird. It told me that my profile is already > open. (in other distributions we need juste to make > empty a file namefile.lock, in fedora ???). > I can't also rename or delete the directory which > contain the concerned file. > > I know that it's impossible to rescue the damaged file > but tell me please what must I do to rename the > directory which contain it and to be able to use > thunderbird. > Thank you very much. > PS: I'm using FC3 As root you should be able to run: rm -r <directory name> to remove the directory. If for some reason the permissions on the directory are too restrictive for removal you can change the permissions using the chmod command and then do the : rm -r -- ======================================================================= "The identical is equal to itself, since it is different." -- Franco Spisani ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
