[Nottingham] Deleting virtual CD drive from Western Digital USB HDD

[Simon Sleaford]

Hi Cam

Unfortunately not:

*simon at 106602-1004:~$ sudo umount /dev/sr1*
*simon at 106602-1004:~$ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sr1*
*mkfs.vfat 3.0.7 (24 Dec 2009)*
*mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/sr1*
*simon at 106602-1004:~$ *


I'm stumped.

Simon


On 9 September 2010 12:48, Camilo Mesias <camilo at mesias.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> would something like:
>
> umount /dev/sr1
> mkfs.vfat /dev/sr1 (or mkfs.ext3 if you really don't need to use it
> from Windows)
>
> help?
>
> -Cam
>
> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Simon Sleaford
> <simon.sleaford at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can see it is set as read-only and udf filesystem. I want to be able to
> > delete this partition and the files within it and make it usable to me.
> I've
> > tried unmounting it and remounting as RW
>
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