On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > As root I wanted to run > rm -r /media/path/to/a/partition > This is not safe to do anyway. If I understand you well you were trying to remove an empty folder that was a mount point before ? Then use "rmdir" instead of "rm -r". It will accept to remove the directory only if empty which is the safe behavior you want in that case. -- Cédric Girard
