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Date:      Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:07:08 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Kirchner <dpk@nwserv.com>
To:        daniel B <danielb@pacex.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't delete /sys : Operation not permited!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007311705200.77341-100000@web2.sea.nwserv.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000730160017.A78686@almazs.pacex.net>

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Hi Daniel,

A couple of suggestions (probably wrong, just ideas):

o Make sure the root partition is not mounted read-only. I believe this
would cause that error.
o To see the flags for /sys, type 'ls -old /sys'. That'll tell you what
you may need to do with chflags to be able to remove the file.

-- 
David Kirchner, dpk@nwserv.com

On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, daniel B wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I just did make buildworld to 3.5-STABEL and make installworld failed
> because it could not delete /sys.
> ls -la /sys
> lrwxrwxrwx  1   root   wheel   ...... /sys -> /usr/src/sys
> 
> I didi:   chflags -RL noschg /sys   and:   rm -rf /sys
> I get Operation not permited
> 
> Then I did chflags -RL nosunlink /sys and rm -rf /sys
> still no luck!
> Kern securelevel is not an issue since I droped to -1 to do this operation.
> 
> How can I remove /sys
>  
> Dan
> 
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