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yes, i agree with you.That's the first thing came into my mind ,but i don't want to do that.That filesystem is used for hosting 7 zones and un-mounting will mean i need to have production downtime

I partially understood your situation, so I donno if my answer could help you

Just cd into each dir and note down

Code:

pwd
df -h .

This info could lessen confusion

Thanks,
S.Satheesh

If I'm reading that correctly, the first entry has a tab or a bunch of spaces after a newline in the name (!?!?). Or your copy-paste went a bit wrong

My prefered method of getting to the bottom of weirdness like this is the cat-vet trick:

Code:

ls -li | grep us000xyz_R5 | cat -vet

That will show you any trailing spaces (the cause of 90% of these IME) and/or other oddnesses.
You can even leave off the -li but if you want even simpler output and don't need the inode num right now.

Then you can either attack the dir by name (suggest renaming it via mv first) or by inode number as listed above (find -inum)

Thanks a lot all and especially (Smiling Dragon ) for your reply.It really helped me i can see the space in second one after R5.So i here is what i did to remove the contents first inside it.

Code:

root@us000xyz # ls -li |grep us000xyz_R5|cat -vet
       
     42734 drwxrwxrwx  35 root     other         37 Aug 25 19:38 us000xyz_R5$
     89538 drwxr-xr-x   3 oracle   dba          512 Aug 25 19:20 us000xyz_R5 $
root@us000xyz #

Code:

root@us000xyz # cd "us000xyz_R5 " --there is space here after R5
root@us000xyz # ls -lrt
total 2
drwxr-xr-x   3 oracle   dba          512 Aug 25 19:20 test
root@us000xyz # rm -r test

Below option could have also helped but i wanted to be absolutely sure to check contents by changing directory what i am deleting