SUMMARY: Removing a directory segfaults...

From: Darren Honeyball [ML] (mlist@spod.net)
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 04:11:36 EST

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It turned out in the end to have 14043 subdirectories each with a
different inode number. I use the following script to fix it.

#!/bin/sh
loop=1
dir="homer"
while [ -d "${dir}" ]; do
         echo "${loop}"
         loop=`expr ${loop} + 1`
         cd ${dir}
done
cd ..
while [ -d "${dir}" ]; do
         rm -rf ${dir}
         cd ..
done

Thanks to all who suggested various ways of fixing this...

Darren

Darren Honeyball [ML] wrote:

> I've come across a system which appears to have had directories
> recursively created - problem is I cant cd far enough down to start
> removing them, and an rm -rf segfaults...
>
> e.g.
>
> ls -R
>
> ls:
> ./homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/h
om
>
> er/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer/homer: File name too long
>
> Any thoughts on how to remove this short of backing up the filesystem
> and newfs'ing?
>
> TIA
>
> Darren
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