On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 1997 at 05:21:23PM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Gary L. Dolan wrote: > > > When I attempted to remove (as root) an old subdirectory under > > > /usr/local using 'rm -d', I got an "Operation not permitted" > > > response. The info reference on 'rm' gives the '-d' option.
Did this myself; make a new partition (fdisk and mkfs it), mount it under /mnt or somplace, do cp -a /usr/local /mnt rm -rf /usr/local mkdir /usr/local mount (new partition) /usr/local (cp -a) is much better to copy the files, rather than tarring and untarring them. Faster, I think, too. You might want to keep the old /usr/local around in /usr/oldlocal or something for a little while in case something turns out to be screwy. Will [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .