Re: Rogue Directory

On 09/05/2007 12:03 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Yesterday I created a new directory on my workstation so I could mount a
few NFS mounts on it. As root, I typed "mkdir /thresh" and it worked,
or seemed to. I realize I didn't actually list it, I just tried
mounting the imported filesystems on it and it worked. Now when I list
it, I get:

?--------- ? ? ? ? ? /thresh

This appears that your created or possibly the mounted a directory has
some odd permissions - e.g.:

$ mkdir -m600 foo
$ ls -la foo/
total 0
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? foo/.
?--------- ? ? ? ? ? foo/..

What can I do to either delete it (the only data in it is mounted from
other systems) or make it usable?

Try unmounting your NFS share and checking permissions/UMASK on both sides.

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Michael Shuler


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