[ubuntu-za] Unable to delete folder from external HDD

Wikus wikus at cheetah-microsystems.com
Fri Jan 31 06:42:06 UTC 2014


Morning everyone ,

I'm having difficulty to remove a specific folder from my external HDD.
It gives read errors during rsync's and that causes issues to me. It doesn't
have anything important so I need to remove it.

However , in Nautilus it gives the error that I can't remove it as the 
directory isn't empty.
But there is nothing in the folder.
gksudo nautilus gives the same error.
I also tried in cli sudo rm -fvr * but also same error.

I don't understand why I can't delete this folder. It's an NTFS drive so 
permissions should even be
a problem , and I used two different sudo options that should have gone 
past that if it was.

All other folders on the same drive I can delete without an issue. Just 
this 1 specific one.

Can you guys give me any other ideas how to get this troublesome folder 
removed please.

Thanx

Ubuntu 12.04 64bit.

- Wikus

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