Re: unable to delete a home folder?

[Matthew Sachs]

There are files that start with a . in the directory.  These are often
used for configuration stuff.  ls -lA will show you them, or just you rm
-rf to kill the whole directory and everything in it.

On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote:

 I deleted a user and I forgot to use use -r to remove it's home folder. 
 I erase all files in that directory with rm *. After that I used ls -l. 
 It report zero files. Then I tried to delete the folder with rmdir but 
 it reply that it is not empty why?

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Re: unable to delete a home folder?

[Andrei Ivanov]

Because /home/username/ includes dot files.
Like, .bashrc,  etc.
To see them do la -la
To delete directory which is full, just use
rm -R dirname
Andrew

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