On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:55 AM, Wayne Johnson <wdtj at yahoo.com> wrote: > rm -r build/HEAD > rm: cannot remove directory `build/HEAD/qa/testcapi/scripts': Directory not > empty > To get around this, I've doubled up the rm -rf command and this seems to > work. The question I am having is why this is failing? NFS uses lock files, so while a file is in use there is a .nfsXXXX file sitting there. This explains why the double rm works. Check your scripts and make sure you aren't reading from a file while trying to remove it, etc. lsof and of course ls -a will help you find the culprit. Hope that helps. -Jeremy