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Can't delete/edit files on my pendrive

rated 0 times [ 5] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 30289 / 1 Year ago, thu, march 9, 2023, 8:06:10

I'm trying to delete the .Trash-1000 from my pen drive, but with

sudo rm -rf .Trash-1000/

I got

rm: cannot remove `.Trash-1000/expunged/2660089871/apps.log': Read-only file system

(one line of this for each file within .Trash-1000/)

I found this similar question, but I still got the same result after running:

sudo mount -o remount,rw '/media/SGTL MSCN'

sudo rm -rf .Trash-1000

So, any idea how to remove this folder (or its content)?

By the way, I need to remove it because I'm using the pen drive to test a software, and there's a file there that should not be found in the pen drive.

--update

I thought it was corrupted, like Allan pointed, but the same just happened to another new pen drive I plugged here.. After use it on VMWare (in a new OS that still don't have a name), and go back to Ubuntu, I can no more edit it's files, nither make a filesystem check or format it.

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answered 1 Year ago nquirewha · Accepted Answer

If I were to guess it sounds to me like your Pendrive is corrupted.
the simple solution is to back-up and reformat however if you want to find out if it is really corrupted or not which could be a sign of a failing flash drive use fsck

first back-up your pendrive/card then find out what mount point its under eg. /dev/sdb , /dev/sdc etc.

You can find this information in disk utility under the heading Device:

in the screen shot it is /dev/sdb1

You can then modify these commands and run each

sudo umount /media/disk



sudo fsck -favVr /dev/sdb1

Alternatively you can click "check file system" after unmounting the drive in disk utility

Disk Utility

Edit:

I have found another solution to this problem the steps are as follows

Mount the USB Drive you are having the problem with

Open Disk Utility as root open a terminal and enter gksu palimpsest

Unmount the Drive and remove

Plug it back in

Hopefully this will work if all else has failed