Cannot delete a folder recursively even as root

[Kurt Geisel]

Since it was unpacked as a package source, I wonder if the immutable flag was set. Check ls -lo and use chflags if necessary.

- Kurt

From: Users <users-bounces@> On Behalf Of Martin Ivanov
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2025 9:08 AM
To: Bridger Dyson-Smith <bdysonsmith at gmail.com>
Cc: users at dragonflybsd.org
Subject: Re: Cannot delete a folder recursively even as root

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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