From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 8 06:32:10 2003 Return-Path: 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 AFF9637B401 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 06:32:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (esfm.ipn.mx [148.204.102.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F2443F85 for ; Thu, 8 May 2003 06:32:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Gina.esfm.ipn.mx (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h48DUhNY093156; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:30:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from localhost (mrspock@localhost)h48DUhpK093153; Thu, 8 May 2003 08:30:43 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: Gina.esfm.ipn.mx: mrspock owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 08:30:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva To: Antoine Jacoutot In-Reply-To: <200305081510.03822.ajacoutot@lphp.org> Message-ID: <20030508082642.N92592@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> References: <200305081325.36007.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <20030508114401.GA73030@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org> <200305081510.03822.ajacoutot@lphp.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rm: Operation not permitted X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 13:32:11 -0000 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" >