From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 25 20:44:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFAA106566C for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:44:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973B48FC15 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 20:44:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.local (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4PKiTFx017710 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 25 May 2012 21:44:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q4PKiTFx017710 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q4PKiTFx017710; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none X-Authentication-Warning: lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk: Host seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163] claimed to be seedling.local Message-ID: <4FBFEF2C.2080003@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 22:44:28 +0200 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd@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> <4FBFAB5B.6010405@dreamchaser.org> <4FBFCC61.2010504@dreamchaser.org> <4FBFE5E2.6070305@dreamchaser.org> In-Reply-To: <4FBFE5E2.6070305@dreamchaser.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig733857241B4F47DDA7555538" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.4 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: removing /var/empty on a non-system disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 20:44:38 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig733857241B4F47DDA7555538 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 25/05/2012 22:04, Gary Aitken wrote: > 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? # chflags 0 /var/empty # rm -rf /var/empty is the usual idiom. Cheers, Matthew=09 --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig733857241B4F47DDA7555538 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+/7y0ACgkQ8Mjk52CukIzuTACfcIwEWRHEZDBsIQ4sZRQKIXnP nFAAn1kMz+Z2ovD7x2JHfQmgI2HxT5FY =/HiG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig733857241B4F47DDA7555538--