Hi, Could you perform an ls on the directory which failed with an ENOTEMPTY and check if there are any files or directories present on the backend? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christophe TREFOIS" <christophe.trefois@xxxxxx> To: gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx Cc: "lcsb-sysadmins" <lcsb-sysadmins@xxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, April 3, 2016 11:18:26 PM Subject: Cannot delete some folders in glusterfs 3.7.9 Dear al, When trying to delete a folder structure with a 3-node distributed glusterfs 3.7.9, I get following error messages. [root@highlander hcs]# rm -rf hcs/ rm: cannot remove ‘hcs/OperaArchiveCol/JF_20141204_MiniPlaqueAssay_Over_Time’: Directory not empty rm: cannot remove ‘hcs/OperaArchiveCol/PA_20141111_StageChallengeTest’: Directory not empty rm: cannot remove ‘hcs/OperaArchiveCol/JF_20141212_MiniPlaqueAssay_Over_Time’: Directory not empty rm: cannot remove ‘hcs/OperaArchiveCol/LB 20130619_AreaScan_Complete’: Directory not empty rm: cannot remove ‘hcs/OperaArchiveCol/JF_20141021_Sf9_Hoechst_DRAQ5’: Directory not empty rm: cannot remove ‘hcs/OperaArchiveCol/CT 20130529_LiveDeadRot_ON’: Directory not empty rm: cannot remove ‘hcs/ClusterAnalysis/Julia/JF_20141212_MiniPlaqueAssay_Over_Time_2015-02-02_21-04-51’: Directory not empty rm: cannot remove ‘hcs/ClusterAnalysis/JF_20141118_SHSY5Y_func_mito_2014-11-20_20-02-39’: Directory not empty Upon going into those folders, I see the rights set to d--------- and they seem empty. I performed a rebalance, but the problem remains. Could you please help me out? Thanks you, Dr Christophe Trefois, Dipl.-Ing. Technical Specialist / Post-Doc UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG LUXEMBOURG CENTRE FOR SYSTEMS BIOMEDICINE Campus Belval | House of Biomedicine 6, avenue du Swing L-4367 Belvaux T: +352 46 66 44 6124 F: +352 46 66 44 6949 http://www.uni.lu/lcsb ---- This message is confidential and may contain privileged information. It is intended for the named recipient only. If you receive it in error please notify me and permanently delete the original message and any copies. ---- _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users _______________________________________________ Gluster-users mailing list Gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-users