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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <mylug%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mylug?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mylug?hl=en.
