From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 19 14:41:17 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 C110D37B401 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:41:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EBFD43ED1 for ; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 14:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id gBJMWvx02221; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:32:57 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200212192232.gBJMWvx02221@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: delete /var/empty To: tech@time-on.com (tech) Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 17:32:57 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3E024825.8FFE253C@time-on.com> from "tech" at Dec 20, 2002 09:28:53 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > Please help > > I want to move my /var dir on to another file system but when I try to > remove the /var dir all other dirs are deleted but the /var/empty dir > will not delete. I am new at this but have tried to use the chmod > commands but can still not remove this dir please help Probably you need to check out chflags(1) ////jerry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message