[Menai-LUG] deleting a file

Kevin Donnelly kevin at dotmon.com
Tue Jan 3 14:40:36 GMT 2006


On Tuesday 03 January 2006 08:26, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
> I have a rogue file on a USB disk that I can't delete, I am not its
> owner and I think it was put there by error at work by a colleague
> (iTunes folder + associated files). I can't delete this file from SUSE
> 10 and it does not allow me to change permissions. How can I get
> around this problem without formatting the pendrive?

If you run
ls -al
in the directory where the misfile is, what is the output?

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Kevin Donnelly

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