Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:52:48 -0500 From: Jim C <jconner@enterit.com> To: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root not root?? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20000301104654.00a42528@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <200003011531.KAA09053@akiva.homer.att.com>
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man chflags I believe you could first do ls -lo on the path or file to see its flags. To negate the flag set or to turn them off you would use something similar to: chflags noschg PATH/filename Hope that helps... - Jim At 10.31 01.03.00 -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm running 3.4-STABLE #4. > >I have a partition that originally was mounted as /usr. But when I added >another disk, in order to get more space I created another partition for >/usr and I'm now mounting the old usr part. on another mount point (/foo). > >Now I want to use the space on /foo, so I'm trying to rm all the old files, >but there are some that are r-sr-xr-x that I can't rm. When I become root, >either via, logging in as root or booting in single user mode, and I >try to chmod u-s file, I get the message Operation not permitted. > >What do I have to do, short of reformating the part., to rm these files?? > >Thanks, > >Jim Ballantine > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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