Christopher Vasanth forced the electrons to say:
> Hi Binand:
>
> This is getting curioser. I tried rm -fr /misc. I get no error message but
> the directory stays put. I checked lsattr -a /misc as suggested by sreangsu.
> I get the message:
>
> lsattr: Inappropriate ioctl for device While reading flags on misc/.
> ------------misc/..
Well, this is indeed crazy. Run the df command and see if something is
mounted on /misc. The inappropriate ioctl error comes from lsattr if it
is run on a non ext2 filesystem. Try umounting /misc.
I have encountered the zero size directory twice - the mount point of
the proc filesystem is of zero size, and once when I tried to mount an
incorrectly cut CD.
Or maybe there are errors in your root filesystem. Boot from a floppy
and run fsck on your root partition.
Personally, i'd go with the wrong filesystem argument, since lsattr succeeded
in reading flags for misc/.., which is presumably your /. It is failing for
misc/.
Let us know about umount and fsck.
Incidentally, did you run lsattr with the -a flag?
Binand
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