[allan@server]$ rm sample-apps/
rm: cannot remove `sample-apps/': Is a directory
[allan@server]$ rmdir sample-apps/
rmdir: failed to remove `sample-apps/': Not a directory
Edit: it was a symlink to a directory. The error messages could be improved!
file sample-apps/
A symlink!
Correct. If you specify the symlink with a trailing slash, then ‘rm’ doesn’t remove the symlink but instead it tries to remove the directory referenced by the symlink.
A normal symbol link to a directory without a slash would still be interesting:
wzyboy@xenien:~/tmp$ echo hello > c
bash: c: Is a directory
wzyboy@xenien:~/tmp$ rmdir c
rmdir: failed to remove ‘c’: Not a directory
A Btrfs subvolume.
It’s Superman!
Is not “empty” directory…
I’m agree with Daniel. It’s a not empty directory.
If it were a non-empty directory, rmdir should have a different message:
% rmdir sample
rmdir: failed to remove ‘sample’: Directory not empty
That said, I really don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s a btrfs subvolume, like fkol-k4 said.
It’s a tarp of course!
Cof corse is a systemd feature, to prevent wipping unwanted files now systemd prevent you to delete files.
just kidding, is a file with corrupted metadata.
the why not repport a feature request to upstream?