> I don't know how this folder got created in the first place, except > that it is the name of a .deb file that I tried to get into Xubuntu > 17.10 running in Virtualbox. I failed, but solved the problem using a > completely different solution. I failed because I could not get VB to > allow the 17.10 guest to see folders on anything but the host boot > drive. The only thing that 17.10 in VB could see was the optical drive, > so I burned the file to a DVD and used that to get the file into 17.10. > > Afterwards, with the optical drive empty, there is a folder remaining > in /media/jjj with the same name as the .deb file. I don't even know how > it got there, but there it is, and because it was from optical media the > host OS (14.04) decided the make it read-only. > > I tried rm, rmdir, then chown, and finally chmod 777, with and without > sudo. Chmod 777 -R <foldername> says it is changing permissions, but it > lies. When I look at it with ls -la the permissions are unchanged. > After the command chmod says "chmod: changing permissions of > â<foldername>â: Read-only file system. In other words, since the > folder > is read-only it can't write changes to it. > > Well, duh. There has to be some way to get rid of this thing. Ideas?
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