[SOLVED] rm -rf not working on driectory (directory not empty)

[Arcau]

Attempting to remove the old UrBackup share I made and it has removed most of the data, however the actual share and folder structure still remain. 

I have rebooted thinking maybe some .fuse files were hanging around a reboot usually clears them out. 

Have attempted to move the share to a single disk. 

attempted in winscp and got the same error. 

mc gives the error

then using rm -rf /mnt/user/UrBackup gives the same 

rmdir also did not work

 

ANY help at all on this would be so appreciated. I really want to remove the share cleanly. If I dont find a nice way to do it I may end up nuking the whole server and rebuilding in True Nas Scale for ZFS while im at it  JK but do wish unraid had easy ZFS already. 

TIA

Edited June 12, 2022 by Arcau

[itimpi]

You are likely to get better informed feedback if you post your system’s diagnostics zip file.

[John_M]

As I understand it, the problem is with the hidden directories beginning with the "." character, in your case ".directory_pool". They are not deleted by the command you're using. You need to match the "." character explicitly. See here and here.

[Arcau]

Sorry for the late reply to this. 

So @John_M I attempted the explicit delete and got the same error, I tried it with find and get the structure needs cleaning error

So stopped the array put into maintenance mode, did the XFS_Repair and was then able to delete it. 

@itimpi Sorry I really should know better having worked help desk ended up managing to figure it out with the guidance of John though. 

 

Thanks