This laptop has one hard disk with two partitions. One of them has a bunch of data. I can’t delete the data at all, dolphin(the file manager) gives a “not enough permissions error”. When I try to delete stuff with rm it displays this:

rm: cannot remove ‘filename’: Read-only file system

What do I do?

EDIT: I backed up the data and reformatted the partition. This completely broke my install and fedora wouldn’t open at all. I popped in a live USB, backed up some other stuff and I am reinstalling fedora right now (writing this from the live installer :P)

  • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    7 个月前

    Best way IMHO is copy all the files to another disk, double check and then format the partition into your favourite filesystem, and copy everything back. NTFS can be a bit of trouble.

    • groet@feddit.org
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      7 个月前

      That is the “low tech”; works 100% of the time; will make your live easier in the future solution.

      It takes longer than remounting but getting rid of a NTFS drive in a Linux only environment is a good move.