Hi Cam<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately not:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><b>simon@106602-1004:~$ sudo umount /dev/sr1</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><b>simon@106602-1004:~$ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sr1</b></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><b>mkfs.vfat 3.0.7 (24 Dec 2009)</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><b>mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/sr1</b></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"><b>simon@106602-1004:~$ </b></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>I'm stumped.</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div><br></div><div><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 9 September 2010 12:48, Camilo Mesias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:camilo@mesias.co.uk">camilo@mesias.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
<br>
would something like:<br>
<br>
umount /dev/sr1<br>
mkfs.vfat /dev/sr1 (or mkfs.ext3 if you really don't need to use it<br>
from Windows)<br>
<br>
help?<br>
<br>
-Cam<br>
<div class="im"><br>
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Simon Sleaford<br>
<<a href="mailto:simon.sleaford@gmail.com">simon.sleaford@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I can see it is set as read-only and udf filesystem. I want to be able to<br>
> delete this partition and the files within it and make it usable to me. I've<br>
> tried unmounting it and remounting as RW<br>
<br>
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