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I am trying to delete a directory.

rm -rf bla

rm: cannot remove ‘bla’: Directory not empty

It looks empty. I have also tried rmdir.

The ownership and groups looks fine. In fact, the directory was created by a tool I just ran.

drwxrwsr-x 2 me mygroup 4096 Oct 20 17:59 bla

I have changed permissions to chmod 777 bla, but I still cannot delete it.

I am on a cluster and do not have sudo rights. The file itself is not in any special system location or anything.

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  • Have you tried "ls -ar blah/*"? You might have hidden files in the directory. Commented Oct 20, 2021 at 20:32
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    @Garnet, itym ls -a bla/, without the final asterisk, since it won't match dotfiles Commented Oct 20, 2021 at 20:34
  • Yes. Still empty. Commented Oct 20, 2021 at 20:35
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    @roaima I have experienced this issue with .nfs0000093883 like temporary file which prevents the directory from being deleted. In this case, the directory is empty. Commented Oct 21, 2021 at 6:33
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    I wrote to the system admin and it turns out the issue was beyond me. Got this response: "There is an issue with metadata on Glusterfs that causes this kind of behavior. I can fix this for you." So, I don't know what kind of magic they do. Anyway, Thank you all for your help and suggestions. Commented Oct 21, 2021 at 6:38

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Answer was given in comments. There was an issue with GlusterFS on the user's shared cluster. A local sysadmin resolved the issue.

I wrote to the system admin and it turns out the issue was beyond me. Got this response: "There is an issue with metadata on Glusterfs that causes this kind of behavior. I can fix this for you." So, I don't know what kind of magic they do. Anyway, Thank you all for your help and suggestions.

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