USB Storage - deleting files

[Florian Diesch]

Chris Jeffries <chris at candm.org.uk> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the comments guys. All are worth remembering. However I would
> still like to know how the device got to be read-only, and how

That's the defauilt action when the kernel detects file system errors.


> For example rm on Ubuntu was giving ´Device is read-only' messages.
> After trying various changes of ownership, and permissions with no
> progress, I unplugged the device, plugged it into a Windows PC deletd
> the trash files and then plugged it back into the UBUNTU PC (During this
> time I left UBUNTU running). When I plugged it back into the UBUNTU
> machine, the problem had gone away. The device was now read/writable.

I don't know how Windows handles file system errors, or maybe the error
didn't occur in Windows for some reason.



   Florian
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