trouble deleting files off of a floppy

[Anton Markov]

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Hi Chris,

Perhaps 'ro' is the default mount option. You should really add 'rw' to
/etc/fstab (changing the third column to 'auto,rw').

Check the output of "mount | grep floppy" (after mounting the floppy) to
see if it is mounted ro or rw. For example, my output is:

$ mount | grep floppy
/dev/fd0 on /floppy type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,dirsync,user=anton)
                               ^^ read-write!

If it says 'ro', add the 'rw' flag to /etc/ftab

Chris Aitken wrote:
> Yeah, someone else also said I should check that /mnt/floppy is not
> mounted read-only.
>
> Yet I look in /etc/fstab and see no 'ro' entry:
>
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto
> noauto,owner,kudzu 00
>
> Still I get,
>
> Error while moving items to /mnt/floppy/.Trach-chris. The destination
> disk is read-only.

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