#deltalake-questions
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sabari dass
07/19/2023, 11:28 AMHi All,
Is there any way to delete the non empty folder using
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Dominique Brezinski
07/19/2023, 1:42 PMYes their is a second parameter to rm that when set true will recursively delete.
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sabari dass
07/19/2023, 1:45 PMYeah I tried it but it’s not working
dbutils.fs.rm(“mnt_loc”,True) but I am getting below error.
Error:
shaded.databricks.org.apache.hadoop.fs.azure.AzureException: hadoop_azure_shaded.com.microsoft.azure.storage.StorageException: This operation is not permitted on a non-empty directory.
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Dominique Brezinski
07/19/2023, 2:01 PMOh, I have no experience on Azure. That may be a semantic of that storage system.
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Edouard
07/19/2023, 2:29 PMIs mnt_loc a mount point ?
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sabari dass
07/19/2023, 2:31 PMYes it’s a mount point location
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Edouard
07/19/2023, 2:54 PMI haven’t try it yet, but let’s try a step by step debug.
I guess you should try to delete a folder under your mount point (i.e. /mnt_loc/folderA). This way you could check if the problem is that you cannot rm a whole mount point location.
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sabari dass
07/19/2023, 3:21 PMI can delete the same folder using below cmd but when I try using dbutils it’s not working
%fs rm -r <mnt loc>
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Edouard
07/19/2023, 3:37 PMOh i see. I cannot reproduce this behaviour. And when I try to delete a non-empty folder I encounter this error
Java.io.IOException: Non-recursive delete of non-empty directory👍 1