Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:00:29 -0300 (ADT) From: "A. Wright" <andrew@qemg.org> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Strange filesystem problems Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1007210857280.41941@qemg.org> In-Reply-To: <4C46BBCE.2080601@netfence.it> References: <4C46BBCE.2080601@netfence.it>
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Let's say I have directory "foo"; under "foo" I have "bar" which keeps > thousands of files (in several subdirectories). > > I do: > > %cd /xyzzy/foo > %pwd > xyzzy/foo > %rm -fR bar > %pwd > pwd: .: Permission denied At this point, I would suspect that you may have the UCHG flag set. What do: ls -lod /xyzzy/foo/bar and ls -lo /xyzzy/foo/bar say? Check the chflags(1) man page for some descriptions and also how to change/remove the flags if present.
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