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Daren

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From: Notts, UK

Registered: 2006-01-02

Posts: 73

[SOLVED] Unable to delete files from external USB drive

I've just done a fresh install of Arch on a laptop and was copying files back from an external USB drive which I had backed up.

However, I am unable to now delete those files from the drive - even as root.

It's mounted as my user, with the files mounted with rwx------ permissions.

This doesn't seem normal to me

Edit: Just unmounted and mounted again, and this time it's mounted with r-x------ permissions...  confused :-S

Any ideas as to what is going on here??  I've probably missed something simple...

Running kde4 BTW!

Last edited by Daren (2010-03-04 19:20:44)

Daren

Member

From: Notts, UK

Registered: 2006-01-02

Posts: 73

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to delete files from external USB drive

I forgot to install ntfs-3g which I had used on the previous install - just in case anybody else has had this problem.