removing /var/empty on a non-system disk

[Gary Aitken]

On 05/25/12 14:38, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> chflags noschg is your friend.

Not in this case.
If you look at the commands attempted, that was already tried (line 282)
Topmost login had to be as root.
 
> On Fri, 25 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
> 
>> something I'm not seeing
>>
>> I've got a disk previously used as a sys disk I'm trying to clean up.
>> What's the key to removing /var/empty?
>>
>> 280 /hd1/var#sysctl kern.securelevel
>> kern.securelevel: -1
>> 281 /hd1/var#ls -l
>> total 4
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jan 3 00:55 empty
>> 282 /hd1/var#chflags noschg empty
>> 283 /hd1/var#chmod 777 empty
>> chmod: empty: Operation not permitted
>> 284 /hd1/var#rmdir empty
>> rmdir: empty: Operation not permitted