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Operating Systems AIX Can not delete Directory Post 302182844 by Clevelaw on Monday 7th of April 2008 03:21:02 PM

04-07-2008

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Can not delete Directory

I've run into a issue where I can not delete directories under a user directory.
There are several of these dir now. I can do a 'mv' of the dir to another dir. ie 'mv sp2456 old/' and it will move the directory, but I can not delete them. Here is all the information I hope you will need to help me out. Thank you.
I have done a chmod -R 777 sp2f941 to allow all access
I also did a chown -R root:sys sp2f941.
Previous to these two commands the files were owned by spark:usr and were rwxr-xr-w
(ll is alias for "ls -la" )

bash-3.00# cd /home/spark/sp2f941/BUILD/
bash-3.00# ll
total 7
drwxrwxrwx 6 root sys 3072 Mar 25 14:02 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root sys 512 Mar 25 14:30 ..
bash-3.00# rm -f *
bash-3.00# ll
total 7
drwxrwxrwx 6 root sys 3072 Mar 25 14:02 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root sys 512 Mar 25 14:30 ..
bash-3.00# cd ..
bash-3.00# ls
BUILD
bash-3.00# rmdir BUILD
rmdir: 0653-611 Directory BUILD is not empty.
bash-3.00# whoami
root
bash-3.00# uname -ax
AIX cehazel 102983244 3 5 000623664C00
bash-3.00#

Mount shows:
/dev/hd1 /home jfs Feb 07 16:56 rw,log=/dev/hd8

I am able to partially re-create this problem, but not consistently. All other files and dirs in the user dir I can delete and act normally.
If you need anymore information, please let me know. Thank you for your help.

Clevelaw

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mvdir

mvdir(1M)																 mvdir(1M)

NAME

       mvdir - move a directory

SYNOPSIS

       dir newdir

DESCRIPTION

       moves one directory tree into another existing directory (within the same file system), or renames a directory without moving it.

       dir must be an existing directory.

       If newdir does not exist but the directory that would contain it does, dir is moved and/or renamed to newdir.  Otherwise, newdir must be an
       existing directory not already containing an entry with the same name as the last pathname component of dir.  In this case,  dir  is  moved
       and becomes a subdirectory of newdir.  The last pathname component of dir is used as the name for the moved directory.

       refuses	to  move  dir  if  the	path specified by newdir would be a descendent directory of the path specified by dir.	Such cases are not
       allowed because cyclic sub-trees would be created as in the case, for example, of which is prohibited.

       does not allow directory to be moved.

       Only users who have appropriate privileges can use

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

   International Code Set Support
       Single- and multi-byte character code sets are supported.

AUTHOR

       was developed by OSF and HP.

SEE ALSO

       cp(1), mkdir(1), mv(1).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

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