Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 08:30:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm: Operation not permitted Message-ID: <20030508082642.N92592@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <200305081510.03822.ajacoutot@lphp.org> References: <200305081325.36007.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <20030508114401.GA73030@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <200305081510.03822.ajacoutot@lphp.org>
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On Thu, 8 May 2003, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > 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 :) Last night we have a power cut. my FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASEp7 box rebooted when the power came back. Some fsck processes were put in background and some directories I did not need could not be erased... when the fsck's finally ended, it was possible erase the directories. If that is your case, just wait. > > Antoine > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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