Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 02:21:06 +0100 From: Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Can't delete a directory Message-ID: <20020912012106.GA26890@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <200209111704.38102.akbeech@sinbad.net> References: <HEEELMCBPANKADCOBOFPGEJHGAAA.rileyjmc@pacbell.net> <200209111704.38102.akbeech@sinbad.net>
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On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 05:04:38PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: > On Wednesday 11 September 2002 04:52 pm, Riley J. McIntire wrote: > > Prior to a buildworld (adding sasl support to sendmail by installing > > cyrus-sasl2 and modifying /etc/make.conf on 4.6.2-RELEASE) when removing > > the old /usr/obj/usr this happened: > > > > root@wimp:obj# chflags -R noschg * && \rm -r usr/ > > rm: usr/src/fsck_msdosfs: Directory not empty > > rm: usr/src: Directory not empty > > rm: usr/: Directory not empty > > > > root@wimp:obj# ls -ilaFo usr/src/fsck_msdosfs/ > > total 4 > > 155993 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Sep 11 17:14 ./ > > 133634 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel - 512 Sep 11 17:14 ../ > > root@wimp:obj# ls -ilaFo usr/src/ > > total 6 > > 133634 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel - 512 Sep 11 17:14 ./ > > 133633 drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel - 512 Sep 1 13:58 ../ > > 155993 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Sep 11 17:14 fsck_msdosfs/ > > > > It will move within the fs, but not across: > > > > root@wimp:src# mv fsck_msdosfs/ /usr > > root@wimp:src# ll > > total 4 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel - 512 Sep 11 17:45 ./ > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel - 512 Sep 1 13:58 ../ > > > > root@wimp:src# mv /usr/fsck_msdosfs/ /tmp > > mv: /usr/fsck_msdosfs/: Directory not empty > > mv: /bin/rm: terminated with 1 (non-zero) status: Cross-device link > > root@wimp:src# > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Riley > > Try doing > > rm -R /usr/obj/usr This is no different than rm -r /usr/obj/usr Do this: rm -rf /usr/obj/usr The -f flag tells rm to "Force" the removal of the file/directory, suppresses warnings about non-existant files, and causes rm not to alter its exit status to reflect an error in cases where a file doesn't exist, or its permissions would ordinarily prevent you from removing it. HTH Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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