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  1. Xref: sparky comp.unix.admin:4765 comp.unix.wizards:3738
  2. Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.wizards
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!bjones
  4. From: bjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William A Jones)
  5. Subject: How do I remove a directory with no parent?
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug29.151128.3376@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
  7. Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: bottom.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
  9. Organization: The Ohio State University
  10. Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 15:11:28 GMT
  11. Lines: 14
  12.  
  13. I just recently installed smail v3.1.25 on my system (i486 running linux 0.97)
  14. and during the installation process, the directory /usr/local/lib/smail/methods
  15. was created.  However, there is absolutely nothing in the directory -- no
  16. ., no .., no nothing.  fsck kindly points this out but hasn't done anything
  17. to fix it.  rmdir, rm -rf, rm -d all don't work.  I tried removing the entire
  18. directory tree doing an "rm -rf /usr/local/lib/smail" but that doesn't work.
  19.  
  20. Other than backing up everything else but this file and running mkfs to make
  21. a clean disk is there any other way to fix this?
  22.  
  23. Thanks,
  24.  
  25. Bill
  26.  
  27.