Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 22:21:23 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk Message-ID: <20120525222123.474401eb.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4FBFE5E2.6070305@dreamchaser.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> <CA%2BtpaK2Rwvg_G8veqh9bwV_KZPx6Tz4pxWr0cVh8ZbPEBg5=pg@mail.gmail.com> <4FBFAB5B.6010405@dreamchaser.org> <4FBFCC61.2010504@dreamchaser.org> <4FBFE5E2.6070305@dreamchaser.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:04:50 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > 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 Interesting, I just tried this on my home system (FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE) and it worked as intended. I did use the exact commands, same securelevel. Use the -o option for ls (ls -lo) to check on the effect of chflags and chmod. Without eexamining this behaviour in more detail, how about this approach? Unmount the former system disk and newfs it? That should "solve" the problem. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20120525222123.474401eb.freebsd>