Hi geeks ...
I cant remove some files in my USB drive. I got the errors that told me they are the read-only file systems. And even as a root #, I cant change their permissions. How do I do and change to read-write? Help me please ...

Usually its as easy as a little switch on the side of the stick, determining whether its read-only or read-write.

Otherwise is

chmod -R 777 <name-of-folder>

the command to use to give everything in a folder full permissions.

You need to do two things, get root privileges, is the first. You can do that by using the 'su' command, it will prompt you for the root password. Enter the root password.

Now navigate to the directory where the files are, using the 'cd /tothepathofthedirectory'. Once there, use 'chmod 600 nameoffile'. That should change the read only to read and write. You can change the 600 part to allow group and other write, if that is what you want. ie, 660 would allow w/w for owner root, and anyone belonging to the root group. If you want other to be read only, then 664 will do it.

Also, check your mount options: You may have actually mounted the USB drive using ro in the option list. (Some distributions will automatically mount /media/... devices as ro unless told otherwise. (The way to "tell otherwise," in those cases, is distribution and window-manager specific.)

Yes.I cant even change the permissions.

As said above, you probably need to ensure you're mounting it with RW permissions. Check your /etc/fstab file.

Are you sure there's no such switch I talked about before?

Cause otherwise usb-sticks are normally mounted as read-write. The exception is when the file system either is not fully supported (such as hfsplus, where for security reasons it is mounted as read-only after a bad unmount) or when the file system itself doesn't support permissions (such as fat32).

Assuming you stick is fat32 which most sticks are, permissions are set widely when mounted. Use

fdisk -l

to determine the name of the device and then check if there is any rule for that in the file /etc/fstab. If you're unsure about how to do this you can post the output of:

fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab

and I'm sure someone will be able to help you fix the rules.

please paste the output of the following commands.

fdisk -l
mount
cat /etc/fstab

You are probably mounting it "ro". If the fs is NTFS you should install ntfs-3g and use that instead. The stock in-kernel ntfs driver doesn't have write support (a proper one anyway).