This one time, at band camp, Gaby vanhegan wrote: >Hi, > >I just found a load of old dumps in my holding directory that, for >whatever reason, weren't written to tape. I've now flushed all of >these to tape but they're still in the holding folder. Is it safe to >rm -rf them all now?
I've seen one case where the directories aren't removed when they've been successfully flushed, and that's if there are temporary files left behind preventing a rmdir.
