1.5.25: "changed dev/ino" error with shared drives

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Sat Feb 7 23:22:00 GMT 2009


Correa, Wagner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using Cygwin 1.5.25, and when I try removing directories in shared
> drives, I get an error message like this:
> 
> rm: FATAL: directory `foo' changed dev/ino
> 
> Could this be a reoccurrence of this old problem?
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-02/msg00315.html.

Given the different format of the message and the abundance of alternate
but like-named tools on your machine, I have to wonder if you're getting
this message from Cygwin's 'rm'.  Are you?

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