[ILUG] count of files in a directory

[hrishy]

Hi Charles

i am geting it str8 from the horses mouth......you r a
sun microsystems guy arent you.thanx a lot for the
response charles.i fearing for the worst there must be
a file system corruption.

regards
hrishy









 --- Charles Sharp <charles.sharp at sun.com> wrote: > 
> 
> Hi hrisy,
> 
> There's not a lot of pleasant possibilities
> if an rm -rf of test doesn't work (and I
> get the idea that it didn't).
> 
> Is it possible that a process is running
> that created a file and unlinked it, but
> the process is still running, but the file
> is still open?  Or that an independent
> process rm'd a file the test directory, but
> another process has it open?
> 
> Does an "fuser -c test" show anything?
> 
> If fuser -c test doesn't show anything,
> and an rm -rf test (while you're not in
> the test directory) didn't work, then
> you can do an unlink(1M) of the directory,
> but understand that this is very, very,
> nasty and should only be done as a last
> resort.  Be _very_ sure that no process
> has a file open in test when you do this.
> Be sure that no shell has test as it's
> current working directory.
> 
> good luck, 
> cas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> hrishy wrote:
> > 
> > Hi stephane
> > 
> > i am on sunos..output of sundir test is
> > 
> > rmdir test
> > rmdir: directory "test": Directory not empty
> > 
> > regards
> > hrishy
> > 
> > --- Stephane Dudzinski <stephane at antefacto.com>
> wrote:
> > > The output has no hidden directories, this is
> what
> > > you get in an empty
> > > directory when doing a ls -la
> > >
> > > what does return rmdir test
> > >
> > > ?
> > >
> > > What kind of linux flavour do you use ? Do you
> > > offenly check your fs ?
> > >
> > > On 31 Jul 2001 08:57:18 +0100, hrishy wrote:
> > > > Hello stephane
> > > >
> > > > here is the output of
> > > > rm -rf test
> > > > rm: Unable to remove directory test: File
> exists
> > > >
> > > > regards
> > > > hrishy
> > > >
> > > > -- lindenm at rte.ie wrote: > Did you try
> > > > > rm -rf test
> > > > >
> > > > > What happens then??
> > > > >
> > > > > Markus
> > > > >
> > > > > Quoting hrishy <hrishys at yahoo.co.uk>:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hello
> > > > > >
> > > > > > output of ls -la is
> > > > > > jaquarROOT# cd test
> > > > > > jaquarROOT# ls -la
> > > > > > total 4
> > > > > > drwxrwxrwx   3 root     sys          512
> Jul
> > > 31
> > > > > > 06:37
> > > > > >  .
> > > > > > drwxr-xr-x   3 root     other        512
> Jul
> > > 31
> > > > > > 06:44
> > > > > > ..
> > > > > >
> > > > > > how do i delete test???there two hiden
> folders
> > > .
> > > > > > and
> > > > > > ..
> > > > > > regards
> > > > > > hrishy
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --- Stephane Dudzinski
> > > <stephane at antefacto.com>
> > > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > > 2 ways :
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > - Check if they do not contain any
> hidden
> > > file
> > > > > > > .xxxxxx by : ls -la test
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > - rm -rf <dirname> will wipe out
> everything,
> > > > > > careful
> > > > > > > with this one.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Steph
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 30 Jul 2001 12:02:01 +0100, hrishy
> wrote:
> > > > > > > >  Hello
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > I have 2 folders called test and testd
> > > which
> > > > > > are
> > > > > > > empty
> > > > > > > > i wann adelete them but unable to do
> so as
> > > > > > it is
> > > > > > > sayin
> > > > > > > > that the folders are not empty whereas
> > > > > > actually
> > > > > > > they
> > > > > > > > are.if a create a dir called hrishy i
> am
> > > > > > able to
> > > > > > > > delete.i have root aceses to the
> system
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > regards
> > > > > > > > hrishy
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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