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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Since it was unpacked as a package source, I wonder if the immutable flag was set. Check ls -lo and use chflags if necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">- Kurt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Users <users-bounces@>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Martin Ivanov<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 16, 2025 9:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsmith@gmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> users@dragonflybsd.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Cannot delete a folder recursively even as root<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am actually root as you can see from the command prompt. The file system is hammer2.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Martin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bridger Dyson-Smith <<a href="mailto:bdysonsmith@gmail.com">bdysonsmith@gmail.com</a>> schrieb am So. 16. Feb. 2025 um 19:03:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Martin,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 11:52<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM Martin Ivanov <<a href="mailto:marto1980@gmail.com" target="_blank">marto1980@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have dfly version 6 installed. I created a folder named /compat/freebsd under /, where I unpacked the recent freebsd base package in the hope to reconcile problems with freebsd deps. Now I have given up on that and I want to delete the
/compat/freebsd directory. However, what I get is:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">root@dragonfly:/home/marto # rm -rf /compat<br>
recursively remove /compat? y<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/sbin/init: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/sbin: Directory not empty<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/crontab: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/passwd: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/su: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/login: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/chpass: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin: Directory not empty<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/usr: Directory not empty<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/libexec/ld-elf32.so.1: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/libexec: Directory not empty<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/var/empty: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/var: Directory not empty<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/lib/libthr.so.3: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/lib/librt.so.1: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/lib/libc.so.7: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/lib/libcrypt.so.5: Operation not permitted<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd/lib: Directory not empty<br>
rm: /compat/freebsd: Directory not empty<br>
rm: /compat: Directory not empty<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What is going on? Any ideas will be appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Possibly a permissions issue? `sudo` or `su` to root?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Martin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bridger<o:p></o:p></p>
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