Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:24:43 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Ilya <mail@krel.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cant remove files with "operation not allowed error" Message-ID: <20010410222443.D8173@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20010410161726.A25069@krel.org> References: <20010410161726.A25069@krel.org>
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Ilya wrote: > Hi, on my laptop i went for current to see if it will help me out > with pcmcia, it didnt, so i went back to stable. but now there are > several files i cannot delete (some lib files and old kernel modules), > rm doesnt work, i can cp them, i can mv them in same partition, but > not to a different one. one time i got crosslink error, but i always > get "operation not allowed" when i try to remove them. i have run > fsck numerouse times and it had found no problems with my drives. any > suggestions? Please wrap your lines at around 76 characters, it makes your message much easier to read... On to the problem... What does `ls -lo' show on the problematic files? It may have some flags set, in which case `chflags 0' on the files in question will clear those flags and allow you to delete them. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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