From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 18:39:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3ACF37B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aji.wilshire.net (mail.wilshire.net [64.161.77.243]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F2D43E65 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rileyjmc@pacbell.net) Received: from emilyd (emilyd.wilshire.net [10.100.123.20]) by aji.wilshire.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g8C1bWqC091457; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rileyjmc@pacbell.net) From: "Riley J. McIntire" To: "Beech Rintoul" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Can't delete a directory Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 18:39:50 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <200209111704.38102.akbeech@sinbad.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > root@wimp:obj# chflags -R noschg * && \rm -r usr/ > Try doing > > rm -R /usr/obj/usr > > Beech root@wimp:/# \rm -R /usr/obj/usr/ rm: /usr/obj/usr/fsck_msdosfs: Directory not empty rm: /usr/obj/usr/: Directory not empty root@wimp:/# from man rm: -r Equivalent to -R Riley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message