From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 1 7:45:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from enterweb.enterit.com (enterweb.enterit.com [209.45.199.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275EA37B7C4 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:45:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jconner@enterit.com) Received: from KWAN [209.45.199.38] by enterweb.enterit.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.04) id AADF3300F2; Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:44:31 DT Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000301104654.00a42528@mail.enterit.com> X-Sender: notjames@mail.pseudonet.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:52:48 -0500 To: "J. W. Ballantine" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jim C Subject: Re: root not root?? In-Reply-To: <200003011531.KAA09053@akiva.homer.att.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG man chflags I believe you could first do ls -lo on the path or file to see its flags. To negate the flag set or to turn them off you would use something similar to: chflags noschg PATH/filename Hope that helps... - Jim At 10.31 01.03.00 -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm running 3.4-STABLE #4. > >I have a partition that originally was mounted as /usr. But when I added >another disk, in order to get more space I created another partition for >/usr and I'm now mounting the old usr part. on another mount point (/foo). > >Now I want to use the space on /foo, so I'm trying to rm all the old files, >but there are some that are r-sr-xr-x that I can't rm. When I become root, >either via, logging in as root or booting in single user mode, and I >try to chmod u-s file, I get the message Operation not permitted. > >What do I have to do, short of reformating the part., to rm these files?? > >Thanks, > >Jim Ballantine > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message