<p>Sudo rm -rf /</p>
<p>That will fix it but it is the nuke it from orbit fix. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 3, 2012 9:55 AM, "Jim Kinney" <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Do a 'ls /media/sdc1' and see if anything is there. If not. no need to rmdir. If you plug back in the same drive(s) they will get mounted at the same location.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michael Nolan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michaeldnolan@gmail.com" target="_blank">michaeldnolan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">(Sorry about the sleep deprived post last night, misspelled words are<br>
always a dead giveaway the next morning...)<br>
<br>
And thanks once again for responses, I know this stuff is simpleton<br>
level for most of you....<br>
<br>
I was reading in another thread about "root" (which was _way_ over my<br>
head).... but I'd like to get a critique about the correctness of the<br>
ugly commands below and my thought process in getting rid of the<br>
offending empty dir's.<br>
<br>
Also, is there any way to search the Ale.org archives other than using<br>
Google advanced search or "[target] site:<a href="http://ale.org" target="_blank">ale.org</a>"<br>
<br>
mike@Pappy:/media$ rmdir sdc1<br>
rmdir: failed to remove `sdc1': Permission denied<br>
<br>
mike@Pappy:/media$ ls -l<br>
total 16<br>
drwxr-xr-x 16 mike mike 4096 2012-02-02 10:15 2T_ext3<br>
drwxrwxr-x 3 mike mike 0 2012-01-27 08:36 pogoplug<br>
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-13 21:02 sdc1<br>
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-01-13 21:03 sdc3<br>
mike@Pappy:/media$<br>
<br>
Obviously root owns the two dir's<br>
<br>
so:<br>
<br>
mike@Pappy:/media$ chown mike /media/sdc1<br>
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sdc1': Operation not permitted<br>
<br>
so:<br>
<br>
mike@Pappy:/media$ sudo su<br>
<br>
root@Pappy:/media#<br>
<br>
root@Pappy:/media# rmdir sdc1<br>
root@Pappy:/media# rmdir sdc3<br>
root@Pappy:/media# exit<br>
exit<br>
<div>mike@Pappy:/media$ ls<br>
2T_ext3 pogoplug<br>
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