Deleting Directories

J_Bone · 08-17-2003, 03:29 PM

Greetings from the uber-newbie

I am slowly coming to terms with this LInux thing, but in the process of mounting my FAT32 drive (fstab so it works on startup) I inadvertantly created some useless directories. For tidyness sake, I would like to delete them. What is the best way to accomplish this?

Thanks,

J

EDIT: This probably doesn't matter, but the directories are called /mnt/fat and mnt/fat32.

MasterC · 08-17-2003, 03:35 PM

rm -r is the way to remove directories

Cool

Dark_Helmet · 08-17-2003, 03:45 PM

rmdir

will work too, if the directories are empty.

J_Bone · 08-17-2003, 03:50 PM

Thanks very much!

I used rm -r, it cleaned everything up.

darthtux · 08-17-2003, 05:19 PM

Be careful with rm -r. Don't do it from the wrong directory or you could do a lot of damage! It's always best to use the full path when issueing that command.