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Date:      Sun, 6 Apr 2003 19:00:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Just for Your Information
Message-ID:  <20030406185826.U92580@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <3E70932F.8020503@myrealbox.com>
References:  <b4q0uu$1akl$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3E70932F.8020503@myrealbox.com>

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, walt wrote:

> CARTER Anthony wrote:
> >
> > I just tried to do a build world that failed, so I tried re-running it
> > and it told me directory not empty (/usr/obj/usr/src/i386*)...Funny,
> > even though the first thing it does is an rm -rf of that directory...
> >
> > So I tried to do it manually (of course as root), but nada. Told me that
> > the directory was not empty (rm -rf telling me THAT???)
>
> I can't be certain, but I think I've seen that behavior in the past
> when I had a corrupt filesystem.  Does fsck have anything to say
> about that partition?

rm -rf fails with files/directories that have schg set on them. To see
if that's the case do an 'ls -lo'. For more information, man chflags(1).

Regards,

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >



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