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Operating Systems AIX Can not delete Directory Post 302182860 by Clevelaw on Monday 7th of April 2008 03:53:42 PM
Old 04-07-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by dam294
The rmdir command is never going to remove a directory that is not empty, even if you are root. Try to cd to your directory and run "ls -la". My bet is you've got some files that aren't showing up in your "ll" output(.profile & .sh_history come to mind).

Anyway, you can also try "rm -rf /home/spark/sp2f941/BUILD"
Tried that, here is the output:
bash-3.00# ls -la BUILD/
total 7
drwxrwxrwx 6 root sys 3072 Mar 25 14:02 .
drwxrwxrwx 3 root sys 512 Mar 25 14:30 ..
bash-3.00# rm -Rf BUILD
rm: 0653-611 Directory BUILD is not empty.
bash-3.00#
 

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FS_RMMOUNT(1)						       AFS Command Reference						     FS_RMMOUNT(1)

NAME
fs_rmmount - Removes a mount point SYNOPSIS
fs rmmount -dir <directory>+ [-help] fs rm -d <directory>+ [-h] DESCRIPTION
The fs rmmount command removes the mount point named by the -dir argument from the file system. The corresponding volume remains on its host partition or partitions, but is inaccessible if there are no other mount points for it. OPTIONS
-dir <directory>+ Names the mount point to delete from the file system. The last element in the pathname must be an actual name, not a shorthand notation such as "dot" (".") or "dot dot" (".."). Specify the read/write path to the directory, to avoid the failure that results from attempting to delete a mount point from a read- only volume. By convention, the read/write path is indicated by placing a period before the cell name at the pathname's second level (for example, /afs/.abc.com). For further discussion of the concept of read/write and read-only paths through the filespace, see the fs mkmount reference page. -help Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored. EXAMPLES
The following command removes the mount points jones and terry from the current working directory (the /afs/abc.com/usr directory). % fs rmmount jones terry PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must have the "d" (delete) permission on the ACL of the directory that houses each mount point. SEE ALSO
fs_lsmount(1), fs_mkmount(1) COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved. This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. OpenAFS 2012-03-26 FS_RMMOUNT(1)
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