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I am trying to delete a directory.
rm -rf bla
rm: cannot remove ‘bla’: Directory not empty
It looks empty. I have also tried rmdir.
The ownership and groups looks fine. In fact, the directory was created by a tool I just ran.
drwxrwsr-x 2 me mygroup 4096 Oct 20 17:59 bla
I have changed permissions to chmod 777 bla, but I still cannot delete it.
I am on a cluster and do not have sudo rights. The file itself is not in any special system location or anything.
Can you try chmod 0777 bla or chmod g-s bla. I think s bit in group permissions blocking the rm.
I think you must remove that bit. But I don't know how?
Also you can try remove all permissions with chmod 0700 bla
chmod g-s bla - this is the exact way how to remove 'setgid' bit.
ls -a bla/, without the final asterisk, since it won't match dotfiles