From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 22:01:27 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAC5106566C for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 22:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 081048FC08 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 22:01:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-20-192.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.20.192]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05953CD05; Sat, 26 May 2012 00:01:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id q4PM1OXa002573; Sat, 26 May 2012 00:01:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 00:01:23 +0200 From: Polytropon To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Message-Id: <20120526000123.cf1a67f8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4FBFF3F2.60501@dreamchaser.org> References: <4FBBF32D.9070505@dreamchaser.org> <20120522234510.a406941d.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> <4FBD7BA0.7070502@dreamchaser.org> <4FBEE05A.6000909@dreamchaser.org> <20120525035108.a3af81c1.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FBFAB5B.6010405@dreamchaser.org> <4FBFCC61.2010504@dreamchaser.org> <4FBFE5E2.6070305@dreamchaser.org> <20120525222123.474401eb.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FBFF3F2.60501@dreamchaser.org> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 22:01:27 -0000 On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: > > On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> something I'm not seeing > >> > >> I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. > >> What's the key to removing /var/empty? > >> > >> 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel > >> kern.securelevel: -1 > >> 281 /hd1/var#ls -l > >> total 4 > >> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 00:55 empty > >> 282 /hd1/var#chflags noschg empty > >> 283 /hd1/var#chmod 777 empty > >> chmod: empty: Operation not permitted > >> 284 /hd1/var#rmdir empty > >> rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted > > > > Interesting, I just tried this on my home system (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE) > > and it worked as intended. I did use the exact commands, > > same securelevel. > > > > Use the -o option for ls (ls -lo) to check on the effect > > of chflags and chmod. > > Just found it, something I forgot about a long time ago... > I was running under su logged in as my normal user. > Had to back all the way out and log in as root. I should have mentioned that I did the (successful) test logging in as root (real console login). If you use "su -" or "su root", the effect should be the same. You can always check the success of your operation with the "ls -lo" command. > > Without eexamining this behaviour in more detail, how about > > this approach? Unmount the former system disk and newfs it? > > That should "solve" the problem. :-) > > Thought about that, but I wanted to understand what was going on. > Ignorance is never a good excuse. :-) True: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...