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Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 13:44:36 +0200
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Subject: Re: rm: Operation not permitted
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Wot about

 > chown -R root ERASE
and
 > chgrp -R root ERASE
and
 > chflags -R noschg ERASE

huh?
Dunno if it helps, but try it won't hurt... not me anyways! :o)
Hope you solve it, please reply to the list in any case...

Good luck!
/J

At 13:25 2003-05-08 +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote:
>Hi !
>
>I have a ERASE/empty/ directory in /root, and when I want to erase this
>folder, I get the following error:
># rm -Rf ERASE/
>rm: ERASE/empty: Operation not permitted
>rm: ERASE/: Directory not empty
>
>I chmod everything to 777 but still get the same error (as root !).
>Is there any way I can get read of those folders ?
>Thanks.
>
>Antoine
>
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