Hard Disk directory problem.

[hairy_mutley]

I seem to have a problem with a directory on one of my HDRs. If I do anything with the [edit]/[cut] directory, things seem to hang. Specifically, if I telnet in and then "ls /media/My\ Video/[edit\]/\[cut\]/", the command doesn't complete, nor can I ctrl-C or ctrl-D, I have to abort the telnet session. Similarly I cannot remove the directory.
Realising this is part of magic folders, I have uninstalled that package, and deleted all other directories under [edit].
SMART indicates no problem and I have run fixdisk, which completes with no problems.

I thought that I had managed to delete it via the WebIf, but that was just because it had only moved it to [Deleted Items]!

I am keen to remove it, because I think that it may be the source of some other problems (slow navigation, problems with shutting down, intermittent web access).

Any suggestions?

 

[hairy_mutley]

Couldn't get the WebIf to work at all (just the initialising screen, sometimes), until I moved the [edit] directory back to My Video

 

[MontysEvilTwin]

It should be possible to delete the folders in question after uninstalling nicesplice magic folders. The folders will end up in the [Deleted Items] folder, if you have the undelete package installed, but deleting them from within that folder will remove them.

 

[hairy_mutley]

Problem solved... but for future reference, it seems that the directory must have had a LOT of files in it.
What follows would have been my next post... but turned into the solution. Posted here for posterity.

I was Googling Linux problems with ls hanging, some suggest a directory with a LOT of files in it.
So I tried some commands that they listed, but I am not sure about interpreting the results, although the response to the "rm *" does seem to support the idea.

humax2# cd /media/My Video/[edit\]/
humax2# ls -ld [cut\]/
drwxrwxrwx    5 root     root      12038144 Aug 15 22:12 [cut]/
humax2# cd [cut\]/
humax2# df -i .
Filesystem              Inodes      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             29860704    150587  29710117   1% /media/drive1
humax2# pwd
/media/My Video/[edit]/[cut]
humax2# rm *
/bin/sh: rm: Argument list too long
humax2#

This may explain why the original attempts to "ls" hung (maybe it didn't, I just didn't wait long enough).
I am currently running

rm -rf [cut\]/

OK, that has just finished. Took over an hour.

Problem solved (but where did those files come from?)​