Odd problem with terminal

[Karl Larsen]

On 09/04/2010 03:21 PM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
> On 4 September 2010 22:12, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>>          I tried your idea without the sudo. Here is what it did:
>> karl at Lucid:~$ cd /media
>> karl at Lucid:/media$ ls
>> 4083-B092
>> karl at Lucid:/media$ rm -rf 4083-B092/*
>>      
> Karl, as people told you, you cannot delete that directory entry
> without unmounting it.
>
>    
>> karl at Lucid:/media$ ls
>> 4083-B092
>>      
> I'm not sure what this is supposed to prove to us apart from your disability.
>
>    
>>          So neither work for reasons unknown, I will now try to format
>> the stick as ext4 and see what happens.
>>      
> All of those worked by deleting the contents. Once you unmount the
> media, you can delete the folder, if it is still there. Entries in
> /media are automatically created, usually based on the label of the
> mounted media.
>
>    
         This is NOT on the label. I have removed all contents of 
4083-8092/ and it still can not be removed by normal means. I'm 
convinced it is a special problem that use USB connected memory devices  
that include even a common hard drive have. I can't place blame on all 
the USB memory devices, they are not all bad.

     It might be my computers USB system. I have no way to test this.

     I have used umount and it fails in every case. It looks good at 
first but it fails.

     Trying mount was a success. It showed the USB memory is mounted.


73 Karl




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