[clug-talk] Cleaning up flash drive

[Richard Carter]

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 <cha.gascon at gmail.com> 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 <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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