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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:25:09
Message-Id: 4C0D5585.6020903@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty? by Mick
1 Mick wrote:
2 > I am trying to clean up what seems like a remnant of a failed emerge, but I
3 > can delete the directory in question:
4 >
5 > # rm -Rf /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-
6 > r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale
7 > rm: cannot remove `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-
8 > r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale': Directory not
9 > empty
10 >
11 > Am I missing something simple here? Why can't I remove it? It seems empty to
12 > me:
13 >
14 > # ls -la /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-
15 > r2/work/gcc-4.4.3/libjava/classpath/resource/gnu/java/locale
16 > total 1
17 > drwxr-xr-x 2 portage portage 3 May 28 07:48 .
18 > drwxr-xr-x 3 portage portage 3 May 28 07:48 ..
19 >
20
21 I generally use rm -rfv when I delete something and do it as root as
22 well. It is gone after that. I'm not sure what the difference is
23 between R and r tho. I need to go check the man page I guess. ;-)
24
25 Dale
26
27 :-) :-)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty? Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp/portage not empty? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>