From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 20:04:52 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47496106566B for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:04:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.44.142]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8DF8FC18 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.73]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id q4PK4oqV022020 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <4FBFE5E2.6070305@dreamchaser.org> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600 From: Gary Aitken User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120524 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4FBBF32D.9070505@dreamchaser.org> <20120522234510.a406941d.goksin.akdeniz@gmail.com> <4FBD7BA0.7070502@dreamchaser.org> <4FBEE05A.6000909@dreamchaser.org> <20120525035108.a3af81c1.freebsd@edvax.de> <4FBFAB5B.6010405@dreamchaser.org> <4FBFCC61.2010504@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <4FBFCC61.2010504@dreamchaser.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]); Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:51 -0600 (MDT) Subject: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 20:04:52 -0000 something I'm not seeing I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up. What's the key to removing /var/empty? 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1 281 /hd1/var#ls -l total 4 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 00:55 empty 282 /hd1/var#chflags noschg empty 283 /hd1/var#chmod 777 empty chmod: empty: Operation not permitted 284 /hd1/var#rmdir empty rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted