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Old 01-29-2010
rm -rf not working on AIX 6.1
Hi Guys,

I have never seen this happen before, but created a directory as a user when installing some software, software install fails so I try and remove the directory as root and get an error. There is no processes using the folder see output:

Code:
ls -l
total 446336
-rwxr-----    1 u0008862 staff           124 Jan 26 13:11 .profile
-rw-------    1 u0008862 staff          3606 Jan 29 06:44 .sh_history
drwxr-xr-x    4 u0008862 staff           512 Jan 29 06:36 NParchive-dist
-rwxr-xr-x    1 u0008862 staff         42235 Jan 29 05:39 RainStor-4.0.0.0.AIX6.powerpc.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 u0008862 staff     228423680 Jan 29 06:15 RainStor-4.0.0.0.AIX6.powerpc.tar
drwxr-sr-x    2 u0008862 staff           512 Jan 29 06:27 bak
drwxrwx---    2 root     system          512 Jan 26 00:19 lost+found
lb424p038_pub[/home/u0008862] > rm -rf NParchive-dist
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist/lib is not empty.
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist/sbin/oa6/admin is not empty.
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist/sbin/oa6 is not empty.
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist/sbin is not empty.
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist is not empty.
lb424p038_pub[/home/u0008862] > id      
uid=0(root) gid=0(system) groups=2(bin),3(sys),7(security),8(cron),10(audit),11(lp)
lb424p038_pub[/home/u0008862] > rm -rf NParchive-dist
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist/lib is not empty.
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist/sbin/oa6/admin is not empty.
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist/sbin/oa6 is not empty.
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist/sbin is not empty.
rm: 0653-611 Directory NParchive-dist is not empty.
lb424p038_pub[/home/u0008862] > fuser NParchive-dist
NParchive-dist:

Last edited by pludi; 01-29-2010 at 09:18 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
# 2  
Old 01-29-2010
Could it be your directory is on a NFS mounted file system?
# 3  
Old 01-29-2010
Yes thank you I cant believe I didnt notice that using an IBM loan box didnt think they would give us our storage on a non-posix file system!
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