[clug-talk] Cleaning up flash drive

[Cha Gascon]

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 <carter.r.a.l at gmail.com>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
>
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