removing phantom "non-empty" directories

pepsimachine15 · 04-06-2009, 09:57 PM

Running vector linux 5.8, as root in a terminal:

I tried recursively removing an entire folder, sub-folders, and files on one of my partitions. the command i used was rm -rdf /mnt/mypartition/myfolder

this removed ALL files as i wanted. however it only removed say 95% of folders. i still have a directory tree of folders left over that will not remove. I cannot say what these folders have in common, other than the terminal just wont give up on the notion that they are "non-empty" directories

checking a folder with ls -al reveals no files that i can see. am I missing something? how can i forcefully delete these so called "non-empty" folders? rmdir and unlink also will not work.

Thanks,
Mike

grunt547 · 04-06-2009, 10:58 PM

You might try "rm -vri" on a small portion of this zombie tree. It will prompt you before every attempted deletion, and perhaps give a little bit more information about why it is not deleting it.

pepsimachine15 · 04-07-2009, 12:14 AM

root:# rm -vri mp3s/
rm: descend into directory `mp3s/'? y
rm: descend into directory `mp3s//Full CDs'? y
rm: descend into directory `mp3s//Full CDs/Third Eye Open'? y
rm: remove directory `mp3s//Full CDs/Third Eye Open/The String Tribute to Tool'? y
rm: remove directory `mp3s//Full CDs/Third Eye Open/The String Tribute to Tool'? y
rm: cannot remove directory `mp3s//Full CDs/Third Eye Open/The String Tribute to Tool': Directory not empty

pepsimachine15 · 04-07-2009, 12:16 AM

root:# ls -al mp3s/Full\ CDs/Third\ Eye\ Open/The\ String\ Tribute\ to\ Tool/
total 4
drwxrwxrwx 1 administrator root 4096 2009-01-14 12:42 ./
drwxrwxrwx 1 administrator root 0 2007-07-01 18:42 ../

it states "total 4"... perhaps 2 hidden files of some sort?

raskin · 04-07-2009, 12:39 AM

What partition type is it? Maybe you have an FS corruption.. fsck could report it.

Vit77 · 04-07-2009, 01:11 AM

It sounds like your shell has alias for rm with '--one-file-system' option.
So, are there another filesystems mounted in your dirs tree?

pepsimachine15 · 04-07-2009, 04:31 PM

there are no other file systems mounted in the dir tree

upon checking, the fs type is NTFS. is there any way to check ntfs from within linux or do i need to remove this drive and put it into a windows machine to run chkdsk?

i dont think this is due to corruption but i'm not ruling it out. i actually copied over this directory tree from a different drive (ext2) so i could format the other drive, and then replaced the data. the data was on this ntfs partition for maybe a week or two before i copied it all back. when i went to remove the data from this temporary ntfs partition was when this 'non-empty' directory error occured.

raskin · 04-08-2009, 05:54 AM

What do you use to mount NTFS?

Vit77 · 04-08-2009, 06:31 AM

I'd recommend you to update your NTFS driver.
The most recent NTFS-3G is STABLE Version 2009.4.4 (April 2, 2009).

pepsimachine15 · 04-11-2009, 11:53 AM

according to slapt-get, my ntfs-3g is up to date. i dont believe it though, so i downloaded the 2009.4.4 sources as you said

but now i get an error when trying to compile:

Code:

administrator:$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

i tried configure as root as well, no luck. i have compiled other programs on this system with no problems before. the config.log was not helpful to me, but i can post if needed.

raskin · 04-11-2009, 11:56 AM

Post it please, because it looks like gcc disappeared..

pepsimachine15 · 04-14-2009, 04:28 PM

contents of config.log:

Code:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by ntfs-3g configure 2009.4.4, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.61.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure 

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configure:2118: checking target system type
configure:2133: result: i686-pc-linux-gnu
configure:2177: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2233: result: /usr/bin/ginstall -c
configure:2244: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2287: result: yes
configure:2352: checking for gawk
configure:2368: found /usr/bin/gawk
configure:2379: result: gawk
configure:2390: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:2411: result: yes
configure:2598: checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles
configure:2607: result: no
configure:2782: checking for gcc
configure:2798: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:2809: result: gcc
configure:2845: checking for C compiler version
configure:2852: gcc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:2855: $? = 0
configure:2862: gcc -v >&5
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/3.4.6/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.6/configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-checking --with-gnu-ld --verbose --target=i486-slackware-linux --host=i486-slackware-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.6
configure:2865: $? = 0
configure:2872: gcc -V >&5
gcc: `-V' option must have argument
configure:2875: $? = 1
configure:2898: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2925: gcc -O2 -march=i586 -mtune=i686   conftest.c  >&5
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/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/3.4.6/../../../../i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld:/usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/3.4.6/../../../libc.so:5: parse error
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2928: $? = 1
configure:2966: result: 
configure: failed program was:
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| #define PACKAGE_NAME "ntfs-3g"
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| #define _GNU_SOURCE 1
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configure: exit 77

raskin · 04-14-2009, 04:33 PM

So you have /usr/lib/libc.so.5 ? Usually the only libc is /lib/libc.so.6 . Try to find out what package installs the file.. Also, what does "file /usr/lib/lib.so.6" print?

pepsimachine15 · 04-14-2009, 04:59 PM

i think what you're seeing on that line is a semicolon ":" and not a period "." with "libc.so:5: parse error" ??

"file /usr/lib/lib.so.6" prints no file or directory. neither does lib.so.5 or libc.so.6 or 5.
however, "file /usr/lib/libc.so" prints: ASCII C program text

raskin · 04-15-2009, 02:38 PM

Erm, could you post it? It looks like it shouldn't be there..