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

[Liam Proven]

On 14 October 2012 20:40, Paul Sladen <ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote:
> 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.

(I don't know why this has appeared as a new thread, but anyway...)

I think Paul has hit upon a very good point here. This may well be the cause.

What is the device name of the USB device & where is it mounted? Is it
really (according to an earlier message) /media/xxx?

Can you cut & paste the output of the command `mount' here for us?

If we can work out the device that you are mounting, we can give you
instructions for how to unmount it and then run a filesystem check and
repair upon it.

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