Re: and deleting subdirectories

[Riley Williams <rhw@BigFoot.Com>]

Hi there.

 > I have been done a backup of a big subsdirectori tree from
 > Linux, to the same FAT32 partition:

 > tar zcvf cbuilder.tgz cbuilder ( aprox 300 MB of data)

 > When I finished backup the data, I trt to remove the directory
 > cbulider (i rm -rf cbuilder) and all is delected except the
 > directory itself:

 > rm -rf cbuilder
 > rm: cbuilder: Device or resource busy 
 > ????

 > The directory is empty and I don't know why this message. I have
 > used tje 2.2.7 kernel, with vfat / msdos / etc as modules.

In my experience, whenever I get that particular error message, I have
some process somewhere that has the stated directory as its current
directory. You might wish to check for that...

Best wishes from Riley.

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