Firstly, consider moving this question to the appropriate community so that it has more visibility. You can do so by selecting: "Move discussion" in the upper-right corner and choosing the following:
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Seeing the ampersand at your prompt, suggests that you logged in using a user other than root. The easiest solution would be to log in instead as root and rerun the command. Let me know if by chance root is not available to you (for instance running the latest v7 and cluster is in compliance mode).
Something that I stumbled upon in the field that had me banging my head for a bit before figuring it out was that if you have a (SmartQuota) quota on a folder, you will not be able to delete it either. Not even as root. Once you delete the quota, you will stop getting the "Operation is not permitted" error message (could be more descriptive).
Also, during the troubleshooting, funny that it appears to delete in Windows but simply returns next time you open up the share. Turns out that there is already a KB article describing it:
emc14000695 "Error: "operation not permitted" when attempting to delete a directory with a quota applied to it"
btw, thanks Dynamox and Burhan Halilov for reviewing also. Great discussion.
christopher_ime
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March 12th, 2013 23:00
Raj.la,
Firstly, consider moving this question to the appropriate community so that it has more visibility. You can do so by selecting: "Move discussion" in the upper-right corner and choosing the following:
Support Community > Isilon Support Forum
Seeing the ampersand at your prompt, suggests that you logged in using a user other than root. The easiest solution would be to log in instead as root and rerun the command. Let me know if by chance root is not available to you (for instance running the latest v7 and cluster is in compliance mode).
Raj_la
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March 19th, 2013 14:00
somehow i managed to delete it [ some other user is in that directory by that time
]
thanks
Raj
christopher_ime
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March 20th, 2013 23:00
Good to hear you figured it out.
Something that I stumbled upon in the field that had me banging my head for a bit before figuring it out was that if you have a (SmartQuota) quota on a folder, you will not be able to delete it either. Not even as root. Once you delete the quota, you will stop getting the "Operation is not permitted" error message (could be more descriptive).
Also, during the troubleshooting, funny that it appears to delete in Windows but simply returns next time you open up the share. Turns out that there is already a KB article describing it:
emc14000695 "Error: "operation not permitted" when attempting to delete a directory with a quota applied to it"
btw, thanks Dynamox and Burhan Halilov for reviewing also. Great discussion.