Deleting folder completely, but it comes back

I have this folder in Ubuntu 18.04 that I completely removed.

sudo rm -rf folder_name

It has been deleted, but after a while, the folder comes back, but only with the .cache directory in the folder. It takes about 1 minute until the folder comes back with only the .cache folder in the folder that I want to delete.

I change the permission of the both the .cache folder and the folder itself, deleted them, but it keeps coming back. I also deleted everything piece by piece.

There is also in the .cache folder a pgdata folder.

Thanks,

[edit] Yeah so I was able to finally delete it. As someone pointed out, a process was creating that folder in the background. It was a docker container.

1 Answer

I had the same problem using docker and a postgres container (as @schrodigerscatcuriosity mentioned [what a name btw])

The steps I followed:

1. doker ps
2. docker stop <<container_name>>
3. sudo chmod 777 -R <<folder_to_delete>>
4. rm -rf <<folder_to_delete>>

EDIT: Docker was still creating the <<folder_to_delete>> when I ran it. So, I had to remove the docker images/containers/volumes.

(keep in mind that you'll remove all the docker info so you'll have to re-install them again). Additional info

• docker system prune -a --volumes

I use PyCharm as IDE. I had to remove the <<folder_to_delete>> from recent projects as well.