As the title says, I have a directory I can not delete. When I run rmdir, the system reports the directory is not empty.
I can change into the directory, but can not list any files. If I do a simple ls command, disk I/O starts up, and nothing is ever displayed. I have let the disk thrash for over 15 minutes, nothing ever displays.
I tried a 'rm -f *' in the directory, the disk thrashes endlessly, nothing changes, I still can't ls anything.
The one thing that appears wrong, if I run ls outside the directory one level, the dir listing is there, but the size field is huge. Here is what I see:
Quote:
ls
total 1017220
drwxr-xr-x 3 cliff users 4096 Mar 4 09:14 ./
drwx------ 5 cliff users 4096 Jan 8 09:28 ../
drwxr-xr-x 2 cliff users 1041616896 Jan 13 21:58 junk/
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Its the junk directory I'm trying to delete. I was able to re-name it form the original name, which was
.
I was cleaning up some files with XFE, and moved them to Trash. The desktop I use most often is XFCE. I see the same problem if I try to empty Trash with XFE or Thunar.
Every other directory I see shows a size of 4096, this one is huge.
Is there some way of deleting it? Is there some command to change the size to 4096?
The file is not causing the system any problems that I have seen, outside of the thrashing if I try to ls the contents.