Aaron Solochek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I created a directory, /foo, which was its own partition. > > I first wanted to change the group of /foo to bar, but it wouldn't let > me do that, even as root. I got the error message "operation not > premitted: /foo" Then I thought this is screwed up, so I tried to > delete /foo, but rm -r /foo just says operation not premitted, and it > doesn't go away. rm -rf /foo doesn't echo any errors, but it also > doesn't delete /foo. Any clue what could be causing this?
/foo has a mounted filesystem on it, so it is therefore "in use". You aren't allowed (nomrally) to delete files/directories that are in use. If you want to delte the mount point, first umount the drive.
