On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rishabh Kumar Goel wrote:
> On Friday 09 Jan 2004 2:42 pm, you wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Rishabh Kumar Goel wrote:
> > > Sometime back i ran fsck on my system and during which it created the
> > > lost and found directory. The contents of the directory is attached
> > > hereunder. Now my root filesystem is full and to free some space i have
> > > to remove its contents. I tried "rm -f *" but it says Operation not
> > > permitted. How can i remove them?

> > The simple answer is, use "ls -ol" to see the flags that are set on
> > the file, and "chflags" to change them. The "immutable" or "system
> > immutable" flags are probably set. Note that if you are at
> > secure-level 2, you may have to reboot to single-user before you can
> > change some of those flags.

> Well I m quite new to this world of NetBSD kernel and frankl speaking could
> not understand much of what is written underneath.

[s/underneath/overhead/]

> I did as u told ls -ol.
>
> The output is
>
> total 0
> c--Sr-xrwt  1 538976266   1953394499  uappnd,sappnd  800, 431973 Dec  9  2023 #02024
> c--xrw-r--  1 1461737806  1095914049  uappnd,nodump  3954, 423536 Oct 26  2030 #02027
> br-sr-s--T  1 1277191017  1852138345  uappnd,uchg,nodump,sappnd,schg 340, 271438 Sep  6  2028 #02028
> br-xr-Sr-x  1 1763904034  1970037614  arch,schg 364, 407120 Aug 30  1994 #02030
> br-Sr-----  1 1163087682  673206367   uappnd,opaque 2080, 471619 Oct 30  2014 #02032
>
> To what setting should these flags be then set to?

So try something like this:

    chflags -R nouchg,noschg /lost+found
    rm -r lost+found

Frederick