[Novalug] cleanup of memory stick

John Franklin franklin@elfie.org
Sun Oct 14 19:31:49 EDT 2012


It sounds like the device itself may be in read-only mode.  Some USB sticks have a "lock" on the side that prevents any writes at all.  SD cards have this, too.

jf

On Oct 14, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Roger W. Broseus wrote:

> Nino: I suspect a permissions problem. Try doing the deletions as root. Or, run something like Nautilus as root and change the
> 
>     Properties | Permissions
> 
> to make yourself owned with write permissions.
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> On 10/14/2012 12:00 PM, novalug-request@calypso.tux.org wrote:
>> Today's Topics:
>> 
>>    1. cleanup of memory stick (Nino R. Pereira)
>> 
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:17:06 -0400
>> From: "Nino R. Pereira" <ninorpereira@gmail.com>
>> Subject: [Novalug] cleanup of memory stick
>> To: "'novalug@calypso.tux.org'" <novalug@calypso.tux.org>
>> Message-ID: <507AD772.2050206@gmail.com>
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>> All,
>> 
>> I have an 8 GB memory stick that has too many files on it. I'd like to 
>> delete
>> some of them, but I can't seem to find now to do that.
>> 
>> I try the standard way, like this:
>> 
>> pereira@steve:/media/B826-3C5D$ rm NewF*
>> rm: cannot remove `NewFile11.csv': Read-only file system
>> (snip)
>> 
>> and this:
>> 
>> pereira@steve:/media/B826-3C5D$ sudo rm NewF*
>> rm: cannot remove `NewFile11.csv': Read-only file system
>> (snip)
>> 
>> and this, even though I know it shouldn't make any difference (and it 
>> doesn't):
>> 
>> pereira@steve:/media/B826-3C5D$ sudo mv NewF* ~/.
>> mv: cannot remove `NewFile11.csv': Read-only file system
>> (snip).
>> 
>> I also try with the mouse in a pictorial view of the file system: no 
>> difference
>> (as it shouldn't either).
>> 
>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> Nino
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