On Sun, 2014-05-11 at 18:29 +1000, Jason White wrote: > Andrew Greig <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I recently copied some files onto a USB stick, but now, I cannot delete > > them from the stick as the fs is readonly. I have tried to chmod, but > > no luck. I have tried to chmod as roo, still no good. Then I > > remembered that the fstab sometimes mounts removable devices readonly, > > but the only drives referenced in fstab are the swap, / and /home > > partitions. Where would I be able to change the permissions for this > > drive, please? OpenSuse 13.1 > > It could be due to file system corruption. Have a look at your kernel logs to > see whether there's an error message when you mount the file system. Also, > when you run the mount command, do you get any error messages?
Hi Jason, I eventually settled on this: andrewg@linux-sbl1:~> su Password: linux-sbl1:/home/andrewg # dosfsck -a -v /dev/sdb1 and it worked. Now I have my drive back! Many thanks Andrew _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
