[OpenAFS] Removing stuff from /afs

2013-07-30 Thread Jaap Winius
Hi folks, Could someone please remind me how to remove stuff from the /afs directory? I recently discovered an empty directory there, called: /afs/.:mount Obviously it was created there by accident, probably by me. However, when I try to remove it I get: rmdir: failed to remove

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing stuff from /afs

2013-07-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Jaap Winius wrote: Hi folks, Could someone please remind me how to remove stuff from the /afs directory? I recently discovered an empty directory there, called: /afs/.:mount Obviously it was created there by accident, probably by me. However, when I try to remove it I

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing stuff from /afs

2013-07-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 7/30/13 12:01, Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl wrote: Hi folks, Could someone please remind me how to remove stuff from the /afs directory? I recently discovered an empty directory there, called: /afs/.:mount If you're using dynroot, that's an autocreated directory which can be used to

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing stuff from /afs

2013-07-30 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu: I assume that you are not using dynroot? Actually, I am using it. In /etc/openafs/afs.conf.client I have: AFS_DYNROOT=true The standard way to do such things is to make an additional mount of the root.afs volume somewhere else in the local cell, and

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing stuff from /afs

2013-07-30 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Brandon Allbery ballb...@sinenomine.net: If you're using dynroot, that's an autocreated directory which can be used to access any volume directly: try /afs/.:mount/local.cell:root.cell (replacing local.cell with the name of the local cell). Well, whaddya know: it's not a mistake, it's

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing stuff from /afs

2013-07-30 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Jul 30, 2013, at 19:09 , Jaap Winius wrote: Quoting Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu: I assume that you are not using dynroot? Actually, I am using it. In /etc/openafs/afs.conf.client I have: AFS_DYNROOT=true The standard way to do such things is to make an additional mount of the