trouble deleting files off of a floppy

[Alan Cohen]

On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 17:02, 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

Looks like you've mounted that file system as "ro" ie: read-only --
presumably "mount" will confirm that is only "ro" 
It has to be "rw"

-- 
Sincerely,
Alan Cohen alan-bdq14YP6qtTV+N59fa8YiVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org voice: 416-783-9826
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