Date: 15 Sep 2002 20:53:39 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: Questions FreeBSD <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help! a directory won't go away even as root -SOLVED Message-ID: <1032148419.216.8.camel@chip.wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <042301c25d11$a658f470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <1032133467.216.2.camel@chip.wiegand.org> <042301c25d11$a658f470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 16:43, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > I have a directory that I can't remove. It's empty and looks like this: > > dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Aug 14 12:18 empty > > It's even called empty. Anyway, I can't rm -rf, I can't chmod, when I > > try I get Operation not permitted, while logged on as root. I have to > > get rid of this, I can't create a ln -s because this is messing it up. > > 'ls -alod empty' will most likely show a flag of 'schg'. Do 'chflags noschg > empty' and then you should be able to rm -rf without problems. > > -- > Matt Emmerton Thanks to all who replied so quickly. That was exactly the problem. I've never seen the immutable flag before. Something new to learn about. I had just installed fbsd-4.6.2 and then was in the process of moving /var to /usr/var and linking /usr/var to /var - like this - mkdir /usr/var cd /var tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) cd / rm -rf /var ln -s /usr/var /var That's when I couldn't get rid of the directory /var/empty, I have no idea where it came from, if it was there by default, or what. I've done this every time I've installed freebsd and this is a first. Thanks for the tip everyone, -- Chip To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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