Re: and deleting subdirectories

Riley Williams (rhw@BigFoot.Com)
Sat, 1 May 1999 23:48:46 +0100 (GMT)


Hi there.

> I have been done a backup of a big subsdirectori tree from
> Linux, to the same FAT32 partition:

> tar zcvf cbuilder.tgz cbuilder ( aprox 300 MB of data)

> When I finished backup the data, I trt to remove the directory
> cbulider (i rm -rf cbuilder) and all is delected except the
> directory itself:

> rm -rf cbuilder
> rm: cbuilder: Device or resource busy
> ????

> The directory is empty and I don't know why this message. I have
> used tje 2.2.7 kernel, with vfat / msdos / etc as modules.

In my experience, whenever I get that particular error message, I have
some process somewhere that has the stated directory as its current
directory. You might wish to check for that...

Best wishes from Riley.

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