Recent content by bananalama

That "lsof | grep find" was just to see what files find has in use (that's what my amateur brain tells me). Unfortunately the directories are not empty. The first directory contains some files and a directory with the same name containing the same files and the same directory again. I...

Yes thanks! tar is the only option so far that shows me the files and not just the directory names (with error message). rm-rf is actually deleting files it just takes a long while to get through the directories..... df shows me increasing free space. Thats the output from lsof, I don't delete...

Doesn't work either... :-(

Hi everyone, I'm trying to delete some nested directories which seem to be recursive to infinity (if that's possible). The directories were created by a recovery tool in windows and written to a veracrypt container. If I want to delete them with rm -rf there is only the mount.ntfs process at...