Perhaps the flash drive is mounted as read only? mount -o remount,rw [path to USB dev]
or it is in NTFS and your linux kernel doesn't have ntfs support. Can you delete other files or is it only Cottage68 folder that you can't delete? On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Richard Carter <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have an 8GB flash drive which is full so I'm trying to remove some of the > directories on it. When I try, as su, to use rm I get the following output: > > redcube:/media/disk-1# rm -fr Cottage68 > rm: cannot remove `Cottage68/cottage_68-008.jpg': Read-only file system > rm: cannot remove `Cottage68/cottage_68-003.jpg': Read-only file system > rm: cannot remove `Cottage68/cottage_68-007.jpg': Read-only file system > rm: cannot remove `Cottage68/cottage_68-004.jpg': Read-only file system > rm: cannot remove `Cottage68/cottage_68-002.jpg': Read-only file system > rm: cannot remove `Cottage68/cottage_68-005.jpg': Read-only file system > rm: cannot remove `Cottage68/cottage_68-006.jpg': Read-only file system > rm: cannot remove `Cottage68/cottage_68-001.jpg': Read-only file system > redcube:/media/disk-1# > > What am I doing wrong? > > Robin > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > -- Marie Charisse L. Gascon http://www.chasys.net
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