strange problem removing files

[Alex Maynard]

Thanks very much. That's a good suggestion. Unfortunately, it is still
giving me the same error when I try to remove the files. I also tried
rebooting - but again I got the same error message.

Alex

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Jing Su wrote:

> Try remounting it again as root:
> mount -o remount,rw /windows
> and then try removing the file again.
>
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Alex Maynard wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 10:47:50 -0500
> > From: Alex Maynard <amaynard-vQ8rsROW2HJSpjfjxSPG1fd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org>
> > Reply-To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> > To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> > Subject: [TLUG]: strange problem removing files
> >
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > I'm a bit confused on error message I get trying to remove files on a
> > second hard-drive (a windows partition mounted on linux) and just thought
> > I'd check to see if anyone had any suggestions or in case I'm missing
> > something obvious.
> >
> > I am getting the following error:
> >
> > rm: cannot remove `apsi0814_100_100.fmt': Read-only file system
> >
> > The strange thing is through that:
> >
> > 1. in /etc/fstab the disk (/windows) is mounted rw:
> >
> > /dev/hdb1               /windows                vfat
> > rw,noauto,dev,exec,async,uni_xlate,suid,user,nonumtail,uid=25732
> >
> > 2. the files have me as user and permissions set to rw.  Permissions on
> > the directories are all rwx
> >
> > 3. These files had just been written to the disk yesterday and I had been
> > able to delete some other files that had been written at the same time.
> >
> > Earlier this morning the /hdb partition did fill up to 100% capacity and
> > the files I've been storing there are unusually large. I
> > don't know if that could have caused a problem? Or maybe I'm just missing
> > something obvious?
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------
> > Alex Maynard
> > Assistant Professor
> > Department of Economics
> > University of Toronto
> > 150 St. George St., N304
> > Toronto ON M5S 3G7
> > Canada
> > e-mail: amaynard-vQ8rsROW2HJSpjfjxSPG1fd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org
> > tel: (416) 978-4358
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
> > TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> > How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
> >
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
>

------------
Alex Maynard
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George St., N304
Toronto ON M5S 3G7
Canada
e-mail: amaynard-vQ8rsROW2HJSpjfjxSPG1fd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org
tel: (416) 978-4358



--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml