Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 05:08:30 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Chris Tubutis <chris@tci.com> Cc: "Michael G." <mikegoe@ibm.net>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /var -- Device Busy Message-ID: <19990308190831.7072.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <36E34EB6.929EE4FF@tci.com> of Sun, 07 Mar 1999 21:14:46 MST References: <199903080329.DAA65700@out2.ibm.net> <36E34EB6.929EE4FF@tci.com>
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> > Hmmm...I've always used rm -r to remove
> > directories...didn't even realize there was a rmdir
> > command...I guess there's many ways to do the same thing...
> > :)
>
> Are you sure you weren't using rm -rf?
Do the following and answer your own question:
mkdir testdir
touch testdir/file
rm -r testdir
Of course, if you are not root and if some elements in the tree
are read-only, then you'll get asked about them without the -f
flag -- but the -f flag will not allow you to rm anything that
you could not rm without using -f (which means that -f has no
meaning when used by root).
--
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
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