delete .Trash in USB sticks

Murat D. Kadirov md.kadirov at gmail.com
Sun Oct 14 07:46:44 UTC 2012


On 14.10.2012 12:42, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:29:26AM +0600, Murat D. Kadirov wrote:
>> On 13.10.2012 01:58, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:32:25PM +0600, Murat D. Kadirov wrote:
>>>> On 12.10.2012 20:36, oxy wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I wanna delete this .Trash from my usb stick:
>>>>>
>>>>>> rm -rf /media/xxx/.Trash-1000
>>>>>     rm: cannot remove `/media/xxxx/.Trash-1000/files/.Trash-abc/def (copy)/ghi':
>>>>>          Read-only file system
>>>>>> chmod a+rw /media/xxxx
>>>>>> rm -rf /media/xxx/.Trash-1000
>>>>>     rm: cannot remove `/media/xxxx/.Trash-1000/files/.Trash-abc/def (copy)/ghi':
>>>>>          Read-only file system
>>>>>
>>>>> How to do that?
>>>>>
>>>>> thx ...
>>>>>
>>>> You need append -R (recursively) option
>>> Did You miss the part of the OP's message that said "Read-only file
>>> system"?
>> I may be wrong, but this alert also prompt because of insufficient
>> rights add/delete files on filesystem,
>> not only because read-only mounting.
> You may be right but I must say I have never heard that. Attribute?

Yes, You're right, I'm wrong:

$ mount | grep sdb1
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt type vfat (ro)

$ rm -rf /mnt/test/
rm: cannot remove `/mnt/test': Read-only file system

$ sudo rm -rf /mnt/test/
rm: cannot remove `/mnt/test': Read-only file system

Remount rw.

$ mount | grep sdb1
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt type vfat (rw)

$ rm -rf /mnt/test/
rm: cannot remove `/mnt/test': Permission denied

Sorry, mea culpa.

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