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Dear all,
# ls -li
total 16
2623392 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 512 Apr 10 01:57 10HPA-
8447490 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Apr 14 05:29 118OQ-
8447490 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Apr 14 05:29 118OQ-.old
1925572 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 512 Apr 19 02:36 119A1-
5944099 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 512 Feb 11 09:56 3MJL-
1167719 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 512 Nov 29 2006 VDKS-
5198312 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 512 Oct 18 2006 VDLC-
6498521 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 512 Apr 27 10:22 W4KS-

# rm -r 118OQ-.old
rm: Unable to remove directory 118OQ-.old: File exists
# rm -rf 118OQ-.old
rm: Unable to remove directory 118OQ-.old: File exists
# rm -rf 118OQ-
rm: Unable to remove directory 118OQ-: File exists

I failed to delete those directory have the same inode, Do you know how to remove those directory ?

Kind Regards,
-Fuad-

I don't have two directories with the same inode, but you could always try to remove them by their inode number :

Code:

find . -inum 8447490 -exec rm -rf {} ';'

You can also try:-

rm -fr 118OQ*

Hi.

I vaguely recall that long ago, only root was allowed to make hard links to directories.

A quick skim of man pages shows that SunOS vm-solaris 5.10 does not seem to allow that, and Linux 2.6.24-1-686 warns that it may not work even for root.

I suggest you wait for a few more replies, but if I were in this situation and if the -f (force) and running as root does not work, I'd be thinking of making a backup, and running a filesystem check.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl