Gurinders
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Not able to delete folder from solaris
We installed WAS61 BASE mistakenly instead of WAS61 ND and one of our administrator delete WAS61 BASE using rm -rf command instead of uninstall. Now the problem is that their is a folder in /opt called WebSphere61 that we are not able to delete and we tried to install BASE product again, but It won't give the permissions to install BASE as well as ND. The OS is Solaris 9. Wait for your early response. Thanks.
omarfarid
Why not being able to delete the folder WebSphere61? What command you used and what error you get?
Did the administrator try to remove the folder in /opt as the root user?
ASKER
I tried with "sudo rmdir WebSphere61" and also tried with rm -rf WebSphere61. Yes, administrator also tried to remove but couldn't remove it. He was telling that "you cannot delete it. it's a mounted file system". Thanks for the quick response. Please help!
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You answer is perfect. Unfortunately we cann't unmount the filesyste.. Its another department that take care of it.. But won't their be any way without unmounting the drive.. what is the route cause of this.. Is this happened because we didn't uninstall the software and remove using rm -rf command or this has to be like this even if we uninstall the same was61 Base.