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So can you format the entire partition? my favorite tool is gparted, however Ubuntu ships with a Disks app that can do some simple partition manipulation.
unmount the usb partition and then reformatting the partition will remvoe all the files. This can be either done from the command line or use gparted as suggested.
Distribution: Ubuntu, mainly. Too much stuff works out of the box O.o
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Originally Posted by jettjett
yes, correct, both of you. i reformatted using ubuntu "disks" like mill said = deleted the partition all together and erased all files.
thanks!
For future ref, if this happens again, and formatting is not what you want to do, you can simply force mount as writeable, ie (if it's already mounted):
Hi. Do you see in the /etc/fstab file? Maybe your system put devices (like pendrive) in the format "ro" . You can change in this file this option to "rw" and solve future and repetitive error. Other options like propietaries,group,chmod,etc can optimize your sistem.
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