Re: Unable to recirsively delete a directory

2007-10-16 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Peshansky wrote: On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Dave Korn wrote: On 16 October 2007 18:18, Paul McFerrin wrote: I've been seeing this same problem Specifically on a NAS over SMB? Or are you talking about something you've seen happen on your local hard drive, which would very lik

RE: Unable to recirsively delete a directory

2007-10-16 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Dave Korn wrote: > On 16 October 2007 18:18, Paul McFerrin wrote: > > > I've been seeing this same problem > > Specifically on a NAS over SMB? Or are you talking about something > you've seen happen on your local hard drive, which would very likely be > a completely differe

Re: Unable to recirsively delete a directory

2007-10-16 Thread Paul McFerrin
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Paul McFerrin wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Michael.MacAllister wrote: I can read and write to the /z drive and I can delete individual files but I can't delete folders (rm -rf anypath) from the cygwin command line. I get the followning error. $ rm -rf /s

RE: Unable to recirsively delete a directory

2007-10-16 Thread Dave Korn
On 16 October 2007 18:18, Paul McFerrin wrote: > I've been seeing this same problem Specifically on a NAS over SMB? Or are you talking about something you've seen happen on your local hard drive, which would very likely be a completely different problem? > since B20! Say, you /could/

Re: Unable to recirsively delete a directory

2007-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Paul McFerrin wrote: Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Michael.MacAllister wrote: I can read and write to the /z drive and I can delete individual files but I can't delete folders (rm -rf anypath) from the cygwin command line. I get the followning error. $ rm -rf /s/test/ rm: cannot remove dire

Re: Unable to recirsively delete a directory

2007-10-16 Thread Paul McFerrin
I've been seeing this same problem since B20! It usually involves deleting a large directory tree with a few thousand files. I just switch to MS-Dos mode and use their rm command without any problem. So yes, looks like more than one person has seen this problem. - Paul Larry Hall (Cygwin)

Re: Unable to recirsively delete a directory

2007-10-16 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running XP SP2. I have a drive mapped (z:). See mount output. It is a NAS drive that supports smb. sh-3.2$ mount D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /cygdrive

Unable to recirsively delete a directory

2007-10-16 Thread Michael.MacAllister
Hi, I am running XP SP2. I have a drive mapped (z:). See mount output. It is a NAS drive that supports smb. sh-3.2$ mount D:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode) D:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode) D:\cygwin on / type system (binmode) c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,nou