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Operating Systems Solaris rm -rf not able deletes file but not the directory Post 302580985 by chidori on Sunday 11th of December 2011 02:47:44 PM
Old 12-11-2011
well my mount point has 770 permission and i logged in as the owner of the mount point and tried rm -rf dir it throwed the same error

and also to be noted.. rm -rf works for file but not for dir.

and when i execute rm -rf directory it removes all files under that dir but leaves the sub directories .. it doesnt remove dir.. but removes files..


later i tried to by coming out of that mount point.. and then gave the ful path of the dir to be deleted then.. i could remove it..

would be nice if someone has some explanation for this
 

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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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