Re: cannot delete directory - why?

Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
05 Oct 1999 16:35:44 +0200

Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:

|> Hello,
|>
|> I can't seem to delete the following directory:
|>
|> snoopy# pwd
|> /homes/diskless/slink/root/dev
|> snoopy# ls -ld pts
|> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 2 15:20 pts

I think you have a corrupted filesystem. A directory inode with a zero
size but nonzero link count does not look sane.

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