Re: BTRFS cannot remove empry directory pretending it is not empty

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 10:19:54AM +0200, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> BTRFS refuses to remove an empty dir and pretends it is not empty (and there 
> is no BTRFS subvolume involved in there...)
> 
> # uname -r
> 4.1.5-1-ARCH
> 
> 
> # ls -alnR .dropbox-old/
> .dropbox-old/:
> total 0
> drwx------ 1 1000 1000   18 21 août  09:59 .
> drwxr-x--- 1 1000 1000 2624 21 août  10:09 ..
> drwx------ 1 1000 1000  416 21 août  09:59 instance1
> 
> .dropbox-old/instance1:
> total 0
> drwx------ 1 1000 1000 416 21 août  09:59 .
> drwx------ 1 1000 1000  18 21 août  09:59 ..
> 
> 
> # rm -rf .dropbox-old
> rm: cannot remove ‘.dropbox-old/instance1’: Directory not empty
> 
> # ls -alnR .dropbox-old/instance1/
> .dropbox-old/instance1/:
> total 0
> drwx------ 1 1000 1000 416 21 août  09:59 .
> drwx------ 1 1000 1000  18 21 août  09:59 ..
> 
> # rm -rf .dropbox-old/instance1/
> rm: cannot remove ‘.dropbox-old/instance1/’: Directory not empty
> 
> 
> How could this be fixed ?

   There was a bug long ago that produced subdirectories like
that. btrfs check should be able to deal with them.

   Hugo.

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