[Gluster-users] cannot remove empty directory on gluster file system

[Felix Kölzow]

Dear Mauro,

I also faced this issue several times, even on a host with single brick
and single volume.


The solution for me was: I figured out the leftover file-names and
directory-names in the brick directory.

Let's suppose the file name is hiddenFile and hiddenDirectory.
Afterwards, go to

the corresponding path on mount directory which is related to your issue
and try to remove the file and directory, i.e.:

cd RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505/

rm hiddenFile

rm -r hiddenDirectory


I would be interested if this procedure is also working for you.

Regards,

Felix


On 25/03/2020 21:55, Mauro Tridici wrote:
> Hi Strahil,
>
> unfortunately, no process is holding file or directory.
> Do you know if some other community user could help me?
>
> Thank you,
> Mauro
>
>
>
>> On 25 Mar 2020, at 21:08, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:hunter86_bg at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>> You can also check if there is a process holding a file that was
>> deleted there:
>> lsof /tier2/OPA/archive/GOFS/RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505
>>
>> If it's not that one , I'm out of ideas :)
>>
>> It's not recommended to delete it from the bricks , so avoid that if
>> possible.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Strahil Nikolov
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> В сряда, 25 март 2020 г., 21:12:58 Гринуич+2, Mauro Tridici
>> <mauro.tridici at cmcc.it <mailto:mauro.tridici at cmcc.it>> написа:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Sttrahil,
>>
>> thank you for your answer.
>> Directory is empty and no immutable bit has been assigned to it.
>>
>> [athena-login2][/tier2/OPA/archive/GOFS/RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505]>
>> ls -la
>> total 8
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 das oclab_prod 4096 Mar 25 10:02 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 das oclab_prod 4096 Mar 25 10:02 ..
>>
>> Any other idea related this issue?
>> Many thanks,
>> Mauro
>>
>>
>>> On 25 Mar 2020, at 18:32, Strahil Nikolov <hunter86_bg at yahoo.com
>>> <mailto:hunter86_bg at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On March 25, 2020 3:32:59 PM GMT+02:00, Mauro Tridici
>>> <mauro.tridici at cmcc.it <mailto:mauro.tridici at cmcc.it>> wrote:
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> some users tht use regularly our gluster file system are experiencing a
>>>> strange error during attempting to remove a empty directory.
>>>> All bricks are up and running, no perticular error has been detected,
>>>> but they are not able to remove it successfully.
>>>>
>>>> This is the error they are receiving:
>>>>
>>>> [athena-login2][/tier2/OPA/archive/GOFS]> rm -rf RECOVERY20190416/
>>>> rm: cannot remove `RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505': Directory not
>>>> empty
>>>>
>>>> I tried to delete this directory from root user without success.
>>>> Do you have some suggestions to solve this issue?
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance.
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>> Mauro
>>>
>>> What do you have in 'RECOVERY20190416/GlobNative/20190505' ?
>>>
>>> Maybe you got an immutable bit (chattr +i) on any file/folder  ?
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Sttrahil Nikolov
>>
>>
>>
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