trouble deleting files off of a floppy

[daniel]

On June 24, 2004 05:02 pm, aitken-BwLjziHGQLusTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I'm having trouble deleting files off of a floppy. Floppy is mounted, I've
> tried recursive rm, checked the write-protexct tab, su, chmod --- nothing
> is working:

check the conditions under which you mounted the floppy as well as the 
filesystem on it.

if fstab has /dev/fd/0 mounting as ro,noauto,user then that's your issue.  and 
if fdisk /dev/fd/0 tells you it's running something like ntfs (weird) then 
that could be it too.

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