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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:11:29 -0700
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: David Kirchner <dpk@nwserv.com>
Cc: daniel B <danielb@pacex.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Can't delete /sys : Operation not permited!
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> 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
> >  

* David Kirchner <dpk@nwserv.com> [000731 17:09] wrote:
> 
> 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.

I would check to make sure that / isn't flagged immutable, that would
make it impossible to remove files from /.

-Alfred


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