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 > > -- > Robin Paul > > Permanent Address: > 1469, Poorvanchal Complex > J.N.U Campus > New Delhi - 110067 > Phone:011-26741386 > e-mail:[email protected] <e-mail%[email protected]> > Mobile No. - 9968047983 > > > > > -- Join the next generation of computing, Open Source, and Linux/GNU! Harsimran singh walia 3rd year, Mechanical Engineering IIT Delhi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
