On 05/25/12 14:21, Polytropon wrote: > 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.
Just found it, something I forgot about a long time ago... I was running under su logged in as my normal user. Had to back all the way out and log in as root. > Without eexamining this behaviour in more detail, how about > this approach? Unmount the former system disk and newfs it? > That should "solve" the problem. :-) Thought about that, but I wanted to understand what was going on. Ignorance is never a good excuse. :-) Gary _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"