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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2000 17:56:41 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
To:        "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Immutable files (was: Re: root not root??)
Message-ID:  <20000301175641.A18996@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20000301081759.T21720@fw.wintelcom.net>; from Alfred Perlstein on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:17:59AM -0800
References:  <200003011531.KAA09053@akiva.homer.att.com> <20000301081759.T21720@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 08:17:59AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * 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.
> 
Directories affected as well, of course.  `ls -ol' is your friend.

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