recursive directory

[Robert Nichols]

Lokrin wrote:
> I have a directory that contains one directory and one file. The problem 
> is that somehow it is recursive.  I go into it and it contains it's own 
> directory.  Go into that and you get the same thing.  The TREE commands 
> keeps going.  RM -RF keeps going.  Under Konqueror, trying to delete the 
> directory give a status bar and it reaches up to around 15,000 folders 
> at less then 1% done before it freezes.
> 
> The directoy is not linked in any fashion.  How can I get rid of it?

Unmount the file system and run "fsck -f" on it.  If you can't unmount
the file system, running "shutdown -F -r now" will cause a reboot with
a forced fsck.  That's overkill, but simple to do.  What you are seeing
is file system corruption, and fsck should fix it.

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Bob Nichols         rnichols42 at comcast.net