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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!izzy.net!aanews.merit.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help with deleting files Date: 24 Apr 1996 22:26:33 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4lm9qp$s7o@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <317D1B54.2781E494@home.ifx.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 "Robert L. Hatch" <rlhatch@home.ifx.net> writes: > overide r--r----- uappnd, uchg, nodump, arch, schg for filename? > >When I click on yes, I get the following: > > rm:filename:Operation not permitted > >How can I delete this file? RTFM chflags(8). Basically, it looks that you've got junk in an i-node block of your file system. While it's possible to remove this file by first resetting the useless file flags, i would strongly recommend you to reboot the machine into single-user, and run a full file system check on the file system in question. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)