Hi,
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Mike White wrote:
> > Try: sudo rm -R /home/student9
> Rm: cannot remove directory '/home/student9': Permission denied
Are you sure that's exactly what you did? Permissions shouldn't be a
problem for root (which rm will run as when you use sudo). You can confirm
that sudo is doing this by running:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo whoami
[sudo] password for gavinmc:
root
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
Maybe also check if the partition is mounted read-write. Type the command
mount
and you should see lines like:
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)
the "rw" means read-write. You need to make sure / and /home (if you have
one) are "rw" not "ro".
Gavin
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