- Deleting a hard link to a directory?
- Posted by Philip White on November 23rd, 2007
Hi, all;
I don't know how, but a long time ago I made a hard link to a home
directory, like so:
$ ls -1i /
....
1224001 etc
2121601 home
2121601 hometest
767041 lib
....
Now I would really like to get rid of /hometest, but I have no idea how!
'rmdir' returns "rmdir: /hometest: Device or resource busy" (even though
'lsof' shows nothing as having any part of /hometest open), 'rm' tells me
that it's a directory, and 'rm -rf /homedir' is unacceptable for obvious
reasons.
Help!
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- Posted by Barry Margolin on November 23rd, 2007
In article <fi7a18$ccv$1@registered.motzarella.org>,
Philip White <pmw+news@qnan.org> wrote:
Do you have an "unlink" command? This typically bypasses all the checks
and simply removes the link.
If not, try: perl -e 'unlink "/hometest"'
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Arlington, MA
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- Posted by Philip White on November 23rd, 2007
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:58:39 -0500, Barry Margolin wrote:
I forgot to mention that I've tried that too. :/
# unlink hometest
unlink: cannot unlink `hometest': Is a directory
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- Posted by Edward C. Otto III on November 23rd, 2007
Philip White wrote:
Have you tried the following steps?
1) Take susyem down to console prompt;
2) umount /home
3) rm -rf /hometest
Ed
