Hi Charisse, Thanks for the tip. "mount -o remount,rw" works, although I have to run it before every "rm". But it got the job done.
Robin On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:05 PM, Cha Gascon <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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