Odd problem with terminal

[ruscook]

I know I made jokes before but to be fair I think Karl has asked the wrong question because he has used the wrong command - so our answers are not making sense as we've been correcting his use of this wrong (in this instance) command.

If I understand correctly Karl wants to delete the CONTENTS of the USB stick. NOT the MOUNTPOINT.

Based on the info  he gave on the commands he used, we explained how to delete the mountpoint directory and explained you can't do that while the USB is mounted.

Now Karl is even more confused - because how can you delete the files on the device if it's not mounted.....

So we either teach him to:
a) unmount and reformat the USB stick as a /dev/sdX partition - that will delete EVERYTHING on it.
b) the correct command line to recursively delete the data on the stick from it's root directory/mountpoint down the directory structure.
c) use nautilus to navigate to the first/root directory of the stick and delete all the files.

Have I read the situation wrongly as well???

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Kind Regards Russell
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