> From: Joel Rees <[email protected]> > To: Debian Lists <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 12:52 > Subject: Re: how to remove ? directory > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 4:16 PM, lina <[email protected]> wrote: >> ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied >> >> d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs >> >> a# rm -rf .gvfs >> rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory >> >> >> any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I >> tried to mount the iphone. >> >> Thanks ahead for your advice, >> >> Best regards, > > I suppose you tried rmdir and was told the directory was not empty. > > But why all the '?' where things like permissions and access dates and > such should be? I don't think it's either a directory or a file. Where > is it and how did it get there? >
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