Re: rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 02 May 2009 20:30:39 binutils wrote:
> I couldn't remove coreutils-7.3 directory after installation, even if using
> sudo.
>
> bash-4.0$ rm -rf coreutils-7.3/
> rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty
>
> bash-4.0$ sudo rm -rf coreutils-7.3/
> rm: cannot remove directory `coreutils-7.3/lib': Directory not empty

usually this is due to a test which mounts a tmpfs aborting midway and not 
unmounting the tmpfs tree.  run `mount` to see if that's the case, and post 
the output as well so we can see which case misbehaved.

then you should be able to manually run `umount` and then `rm -rf`
-mike

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