If you intent is of deleting the folder is then I think you can just issue
rm -rf <dirname> as root and it will get deleted.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Robin Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>      I was trying to encrypt a directory by using encfs. By mistake i wrote
> "sudo" b4 it and so the permissions of the same are controlled by the root.
> So, Im unable to open it as the normal user. When I logged in as root, I was
> unable to find the home folder of that user in the "filesytem" partition. I
> even tried to use command-line. I logged in as root thru command-line but
> when I used the "rmdir" command it returned saying the directory is not
> empty. However, when I use the "ls" command it shows no files. Please help.
>
> Robin
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