I came back to this problem and found what was causing the empty directories to not be deletable.
A build script was running "dos2unix BUILD/*"
this caused the directories under the BUILD...
I umounted the partition, no luck. I will try and reboot it next, but I have my doubts as I am pretty sure the system has been rebooted since I first saw this problem.
I tried a fuser on the device and got the following results:
bash-3.00# fuser -uV /dev/hd1
/dev/hd1:
rawdev 15084c(root)
rawdev 19652c(root)
rawdev 20182c(root)...
The /home directory is mounted as JFS. It a partition on a local drive.
I tried fuser with some flags but did not get any useful information back.
bash-3.00# pwd
/home/spark/old/sp2f941...
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#...
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...