Removing a corrupted directory?

[erulia]

I have a directory that somehow lost its "." and ".." entries. I cannot delete, move, rename or edit this directory (I've tried rm, rmdir, mkdir, mv, and using Perl to write into it). Anyone have any ideas? I'm willing to edit inodes if I need to, to fix this!

-Unix Sys Admin

 

[bkonline]

erulia ;

Try rm -rf directory_name


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[erulia]

As I mentioned, I already tried to remove the directory. I get the specific error:
rm: Unable to remove directory jta: File exists

when I do an rm -rf.

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[SamBones]

You should start with doing an [tt]fsck[/tt] on the device the directory is on. That should fix any structural problems on the disk.

Hope this helps.