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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
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Subject: Immutable files (was: Re: root not root??)
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* J. W. Ballantine <jwb@homer.att.com> [000301 08:07] 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??

The files are marked immutable, you must use 'chflags' to remove the
bit before you can rm.

-Alfred


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