rm: Unable to remove directory /mnt/users/test/logs/: File exists

ls -latr

total 191208
drwxrwxrwx 6 test echo 4096 Jul 3 22:36 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 test echo 97692804 Jul 3 22:36 .nfsDFA4
drwxrwxr-x 2 test echo 4096 Jul 3 23:00 .


M not able to delete ".nfsDFA4" file.


Please suggest.

Thanks,
Solitare123

If it is a mount point , log into the machine where the file is present physically and delete it..

If you have lsof, try to grep the filename on it's output and see which process has it opened.

EDIT: Maybe use "fuser -u <filename>" too

If its on a NFS mount point, you must delete it from the NFS server itself. Could be perssion issues. And you can't delete a directory staright away if it consists of files in it, unless you perform a rm -rf (use with care!)

Had a directory called "play". Looked empty.
But had a .nfs<xxxx> file that would not go away.
From the parent directory, I executed:

fuser -u play/.*

The result included:

play/.:
play/.nfsC54A: 5794o(esmith)

I then executed:

kill -9 5940
rmdir play

Voila!