[olug] directory impossible to delete

Ryan O'Rourke ryano at ch-gifts.com
Wed Nov 26 15:37:10 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 09:25, Terry wrote:
> What's the output of ls -l on the directory?
> Might want to do a `file directory` too...just to make
> sure.

Notice the directory in question is 48k in size instead of the standard
4.0k.

[root at kearney modest_mouse]# ls -lh
total 72K
drwxrwxr--    2 junk     junk          48K Apr  9  2003
building_nothing_out_of_something
drwxrwxrwx    2 ryan     ryan         4.0K Nov 26 09:03 interstate_8
drwxrwxrwx    2 ryan     ryan         4.0K Nov 26 09:03
the_fruit_that_ate_itself
drwxrwxrwx    2 ryan     ryan         4.0K Nov 26 09:03
the_moon_and_antarctica
[root at kearney modest_mouse]# file building_nothing_out_of_something/
building_nothing_out_of_something/: directory




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