Cannot delete a folder recursively even as root

[Martin Ivanov]

Yes, it was really schg flag. The recursive removal of the immutable flag
did the trick. Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Martin

Kurt Geisel <kgeisel at outlook.com> schrieb am So. 16. Feb. 2025 um 19:21:

> Since it was unpacked as a package source, I wonder if the immutable flag
> was set. Check ls -lo and use chflags if necessary.
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> - Kurt
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> *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
>
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> I am actually root as you can see from the command prompt. The file system
> is hammer2.
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> Best regards,
>
> Martin
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>
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> 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
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> What is going on? Any ideas will be appreciated.
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> Possibly a permissions issue? `sudo` or `su` to root?
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> Best regards,
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Bridger
>
>
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