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From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org>
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On Thursday 08 May 2003 13:44, Daniel Bye wrote:
> Try
>  # ls -lo /root/ERASE
> You will probably see that the directory empty has the "schg" flag set.
> This tells the kernel not to allow any alterations to flagged object.  To
> remove it, you will need to remove the flag -
>  # chflags -R noschg ERASE
> will do the trick.  You can then remove ERASE and its contents.

It did indeed, thanks a lot.
I'll have a look at man chflags :)

Antoine