delete .Trash (or anything else) in (read-only mounted) USB sticks

[Paul Sladen]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2012, oxy wrote:
> I wanna delete this .Trash from my usb stick:
>         Read-only file system

I suspect that the filesystem on the USB stick is corrupted.

In this case, Ubuntu will only allow read-only access, to avoid any
additional damage occuring to what is already on there.  This is the
meaning of the 'errors=remount-ro' you will see if you run 'mount' on
its own without any parameters.

You can try to force the USB sticked to be remounted read-write with
something like:

  mount -o remount,rw /media/xxx/

and this will then enable the deleting of material stored on the USB
('/.Trash' included).  However at this point, if it's a corrupted
filesystem you probably want to acquire a new USB stick and copy over
the important stuff.

	-Paul