can't delete content of pendrive form my suse10.2
 

hi,
i am a noob to linux and installed dual boot xp and suse10.2 linux.
now i have got a pen drive...
i have formatted it as NTFS, it appears blue in WinXP and Vista.
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now,
i have hell lot of virus in penDrive;
but i can't delete it from linux..
i can see every thing but can't delete it.
in fact i can't delete any thing.
suse10.2 says, read only error.
cannot modify or delete.
...
can some give me some...
help here.

If you don't mind reformatting the pen drive (which btw is probably the best option), try to install the program called gparted which has a nice graphical user interface and will let you format the drive. You'll need to run it as root.

Or just
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Anyway, that's not really what the OP want's I guess. It is permission problem. I will say mount the pen drive manually:
Check out which one your pen drive is by "fdisk -l"

Sure, just make sure that you identify your pendrive correctly. /dev/hdb is just an example here. On your system it could be /dev/sdb dev/sdc, etc. If you issue 'fdisk -l' (as root) you'll see all drives attached to your computer at the moment (or you'll also see it in gparted)

Yes, but wiping out the whole drive would probably be the safest solution anyway. You never know what nasty files lurk in the dark:)

Guys, it's not a permission issue. OpenSUSE 10.2 does not have NTFS write support out of the box. You will need to install ntfs-3g and fuse manually. So I suggest upgrading to the latest OpenSUSE 11.1 or alternatively you could just format the pendrive back to FAT.