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Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

itreyger — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:16:22 GMT

I have soft link created from one of our directories. I would like to remove it but when I try rm -r /adacs_data/lib/test I am getting "it is a directory".I also tryed unlink but it did not work.I think I need to know the name of that link but all I know is the directory it links to.Please help.Thanks

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Marco A. — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:20:02 GMT

Hello,

Which are the file permissions ?

use ll to determine that ..

Have you tried to use only rm .

Rgds,

Marco

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

itreyger — Tue, 08 May 2007 08:51:53 GMT

when I try rm -r /adacs_data/lib/test I am getting "it is a directory". The permissions are lrwxr-xr-x

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:00:41 GMT

Shalom,

DANGEROUS !!!

rm -rf will work.

It will however wipe out all the data that is soft linked.

Please do an ll on the softlink, post it and someone will try and help.

SEP

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Marco A. — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:01:49 GMT

What is the ll-i of that link ?!

Please post the output ...

rgds,

Marco

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Sandman! — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:14:49 GMT

Not sure if /adacs_data/lib/test is a directory or a file and whether it's soft linked to another file or if it is the soft link? please clarify...

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

itreyger — Tue, 08 May 2007 09:25:55 GMT

It looks like this test(directory) -> /adacs_data/lib/test.Test directory links to /adacs_data/lib/test. /adacs_data/lib/test ia a directory.

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Sandman! — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:12:38 GMT

So "test" (which itself is a dir?)is a soft link to the "/adacs_data/lib/test" directory. And which one are you trying to remove...the soft link or the actual directory itself?

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Peter Nikitka — Tue, 08 May 2007 10:28:17 GMT

Hi,

adapt the names to your needs:

Creation of a sysmlink:
mkdir -p /tmp/a/b /tmp/c
ln -s /tmp/a/b /tmp/c

Check:
ls -l /tmp/c/b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ef3nip00 nsd 8 May 8 17:27 /tmp/c/b -> /tmp/a/b

Removal:
rm /tmp/c/b

mfG Peter

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

itreyger — Tue, 08 May 2007 11:56:37 GMT

To sendman:
I am trying to remove link to /adacs_data/lib/test.This link goes from Test dir /adacs_data/lib/test.
When I try rm /adacs_data/lib/test - rm: /adacs_data/lib/test directory

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Dennis Handly — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:01:03 GMT

We don't seem to be getting anywhere.

You need to say what shell you are using and do the following commands:
$ ll -i your-symlink
$ ll -Ldi your-symlink
$ ll -di your-link-target

>I am trying to remove link to /adacs_data/lib/test.

We need to know where the link is, not where it points.

>This link goes from Test dir /adacs_data/lib/test.

You said this is the target of the link?

>When I try rm /adacs_data/lib/test - rm: /adacs_data/lib/test directory

Please do:
$ ll -di /adacs_data/lib/test

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

itreyger — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:14:18 GMT

result of ll -d dacs/lib/test: 808 drwxrwxrwx 75 adacs adacs 4096 Jan 25 18:15 /adacs/lib/test.Here is the a little bit more info - Since /opt/adacs/lib/test mount point was getting full (92% of utilization)decission was made to create a soft link to the following dir.(adacs_data/lib/test) to save the data there because only 15% of /adacs_data was utilized.I do not know if its going to help but I tryed...

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Peter Nikitka — Wed, 09 May 2007 08:28:48 GMT

Hi,

it is clear that the data you gave to the ls command (whatever the name was) is NOT a link but definitly a directory:
- no simple rm will work
- a 'rm -rf' will destroy the data

Concerning your primary intent, I would look into /opt/adacs/... - this place may be the place, where you created a link:
find /opt/adacs -type l

mfG Peter

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

itreyger — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:48:08 GMT

Output of find /opt/adacs -type l:
/opt/adacs/views/TEST
/opt/adacs/views/TEST_views/view
/opt/adacs/views/test
/opt/adacs/bin.17Jan07
/opt/adacs/data/merged
/opt/adacs/lib/test
/opt/adacs/setup.sav
/opt/adacs/setup.17Jan07
/opt/adacs//views.18Jan07

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Peter Nikitka — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:53:49 GMT

Hi,

having several links named test (different spelling however), check where they point to:
ls -l /opt/adacs/views/test

These pointing to your real directory data are your candidates. You have to decide, whether
- a simple remove
- remove, copying the 'real data' back
- leave as it is
is the action.

mfG Peter

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

itreyger — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:07:25 GMT

Here is what I have got:
ls -l /opt/adacs/test
/opt/adacs/test -> /adacs_data/test

ls -l /opt/adacs/lib/test
/opt/adacs/lib/test -> /adacs_data/lib/test

I just want simply to remove the link without deleting the data

Thanks

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:13:26 GMT

The link "/opt/adacs/test" points to "/adacs_data/test" and "/opt/adacs/lib/test" points to "/adacs_data/lib/test".

So to remove the links you just need to do:

rm /opt/adacs/test

rm /opt/adacs/lib/test

No data will be removed.

Re: Soft link removal.HPUX 11.11

itreyger — Wed, 09 May 2007 14:21:44 GMT

Patrick, it worked just fine. Thank you!

I just wanted to thanks everybody that contributed!