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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
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"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. ;-)