trouble deleting files off of a floppy

[talexb-SBdzbUvMQDunS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 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:
>
> chris-J1OC1CCqXXQ at public.gmane.org:~$ rm -r /floppy/*
> rm: cannot remove `/floppy/6monthreview': Read-only file system
[...]

Hi,

According to the error, it looks like the floppy is mounted as a
'read-only' file system. Try changing the mount options to 'rw' and you
should be able to delete files again.

Alex


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