Cannot delete a folder recursively even as root

[Martin Ivanov]

I am actually root as you can see from the command prompt. The file system
is hammer2.

Best regards,
Martin

Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsmith at gmail.com> schrieb am So. 16. Feb. 2025 um
19:03:

> Hi Martin,
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2025, 11:52 AM Martin Ivanov <marto1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 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:
>>
>> root at dragonfly:/home/marto # rm -rf /compat
>> recursively remove /compat? y
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/sbin/init: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/sbin: Directory not empty
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/crontab: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/passwd: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/su: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/login: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin/chpass: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/usr/bin: Directory not empty
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/usr: Directory not empty
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/libexec/ld-elf32.so.1: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/libexec: Directory not empty
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/var/empty: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/var: Directory not empty
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/lib/libthr.so.3: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/lib/librt.so.1: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/lib/libc.so.7: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/lib/libcrypt.so.5: Operation not permitted
>> rm: /compat/freebsd/lib: Directory not empty
>> rm: /compat/freebsd: Directory not empty
>> rm: /compat: Directory not empty
>>
>> What is going on? Any ideas will be appreciated.
>>
>
> Possibly a permissions issue? `sudo` or `su` to root?
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Martin
>>
>
> Best,
> Bridger
>
>>
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