As Suresh mentioned, the pendrive probably is mounted with option -ro. Try
umounting and again mounting with -rw option.

-Radhakrishna

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Shashishekhar S <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>>  > (drwx------ 10 grapes grapes 8192 1970-01-01 05:30 ADHOKSHAJA). I
>> > tried deleting the file as root. even that didn't work. I have
>> > following questions:
>> >
>>
>> possibly it is mounted by root - try to delete a file as root
>>
>
> He's done that.
>
> What is the filesystem in the pendrive? NTFS/FAT?
> You do not have write access to NTFS partitions natively on Linux. Try
> using ntfs-3g.
>
> - shashi
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