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radusw

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 29, 2017
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London |@| Bucharest
Somehow a folder from /var/folders (/var/folders/2j/8_50ggln3wz21k4gmfx86drh0000gn/T/ on my machine) got 65535 links to it. This caused my machine to not boot anymore. I managed to fix the booting issue my renaming it to something else (mv T X) in recovery mode.

The problem is I can't get rid of it (rm -rf or even ls on it hangs).

ls -tahl ~/.Trash
total 0
drwxr-xr-x+ 67 <user> staff 2.1K Nov 30 00:30 ..
drwxr-x--- 65535 <user> staff 139M Nov 29 22:14 X
drwx------ 3 <user> staff 96B Nov 29 22:01 .

And if I try:

rm -r ~/.Trash/X
...(hanged, does not return)
 
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