Unable to remove directory

JosephK joseph at oxtedonline.net
Sat Apr 12 15:07:00 UTC 2008


I have been moving my mp3s to a new drive and am stuck with a directory
that I can't delete. If I use rm it tells me the file is a directory but
if I use rmdir or rm -f -r I get the message that the file or directory
does not exist. Below is a partial list of an ls

jmasters at spookie1:~$ ls -al /mnt/music/mp3s/B*
/mnt/music/mp3s/Bj_rk:
total 0

/mnt/music/mp3s/Black Uhuru:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx   3 jmasters users 0 2008-04-11 22:02 .
drwxrwxrwx 282 jmasters users 0 2008-04-12 06:35 ..
drwxrwxrwx   2 jmasters users 0 2008-02-24 08:44 Black Sounds Of Freedom

/mnt/music/mp3s/Boards Of Canada:
total 0
drwxrwxrwx   4 jmasters users 0 2008-04-11 22:02 .
drwxrwxrwx 282 jmasters users 0 2008-04-12 06:35 ..
drwxrwxrwx   2 jmasters users 0 2008-02-24 08:43 Music Has The Right to
Children
drwxrwxrwx   2 jmasters users 0 2008-02-24 08:43 Peel Session

As you can see it is the Bj_rk entry that is the problem. Seems to have
been renamed from Bjork, probably by EasyTag

Any ideas how I can get rid of this?

-- 
Regards, Joe




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