Empty directory not getting deleted in external harddisk

[Linux Tyro]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

 > There has occurred an strange problem and I am encountering this problem
> for
> > the first time. In my external hard-disk which when I connect in Ubuntu a
> > folder is not getting deleted at all. Again I plug in usb hard disk and
> find
> > that some few file(s) (namely 'databases' get created inside that
> directory
> > and these all I delete but finally the main empty directory still exists
> and
> > I don't know how it got created.
>
> > how could it be permanently deleted?
>
> Can you give us the names of the directories and files please?
>

This is how the directories are getting created:

43c9f2721ed24ab138b75e5e       ->           databases
->              d74157950031f86b102e1759dcd53fdb
    (it is directory)                               (it is also a
directory)                             (it is a file, I don't know which
format it is)

In the above the last two ('databases' and
'd74157950031f86b102e1759dcd53fdb') I am able to delete (but each time
whenever I plug the hard disk) but the first one
('43c9f2721ed24ab138b75e5e'), a directory doesn't get deleted even after
emptying it (that is, even after deleting the other two).

Thx.
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