On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 05:50:39PM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote: > On 22/01/27 07:06AM, Maxim Blinov wrote: > > $ for i in $(seq 999999); do echo "im $i levels deep"; cd confdir3; done; > > > > It then ran for a while, and eventually I got to the bottom: > > > > ``` > > ... > > im 892 levels deep > > im 893 levels deep > > im 894 levels deep > > im 895 levels deep > > im 896 levels deep > > bash: cd: confdir3: File name too long > > $ ls > > <nothing here> > > ``` > > > > So then, I `cd ../`, and `rmdir confdir3`, but even here, I get > > > > rmdir: failed to remove 'confdir3/': File name too long > > > > I would be very grateful if someone could please help suggest how I > > might get this infernal tower of directories off of my precious ext4 > > partition. > > > > I was thinking maybe there's some kind of magic "forget this directory > > inode ever existed" command, but I am out of my depth with filesystems. here's an idea: while true; do mv confdir3/confdir3 tmpd; rmdir confdir3; mv tmpd confdir3; done
