Difficulty deleting files or folders

[Anonymous_User]

NW6 SP5 with NSS post SP5 fix.

We have large NSS volumes with about 500,000 student files. Very
occasionally students place folders or files into their home directories
that can;t seem to be deleted. On this volume I have three such files. If I
try to delete them I can get error messages saying for folder or file names
are too long or corrupt. I recall years ago when we were on NW5 or 5.1 I
used to get this and would delete the files by going through nwadmin or
sometimes to a map to their drive and delete through a command prompt.
However now I cant seem to shift them!

Any ideas?

Regards

Brian

[Anonymous_User]

Tried deleting them using NRM ?, that gets things fairly well

Cheers Dave


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[Anonymous_User]

Under what SP were the pools created or last rebuilt? Probably you have
hangovers from old NSS bugs; on the affected pools do

nss /poolrebuild /purge

Make sure you have tested backups first, just in case.
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[Anonymous_User]

Thanks that does the trick.

Brian
"Andrew C Taubman" <ataubman.RemoveThisToMailMe@novell.AndThis.com> wrote in
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> Under what SP were the pools created or last rebuilt? Probably you have
> hangovers from old NSS bugs; on the affected pools do
>
> nss /poolrebuild /purge
>
> Make sure you have tested backups first, just in case.
> --
> Andrew C Taubman
> Novell Support Forums Volunteer SysOp
> http://support.novell.com/forums
> (Sorry, support is not provided via e-mail)
>
> Opinions expressed above are not
> necessarily those of Novell Inc.