Tuesday 06 Sep 2005 15:17 samaye Jonas Helgi Palsson alekhiit:
First thing: Check how the filesystem is mounted. If it is mounted 'ro' then you can not change any file on that filesystem. Even as root.
As you can see in the attached fstab, it is mounted as rw only.
If your filesystem is NTFS, then it cannot be written to in Linux without risking dataloss.
Which is why I opted to use FAT even on Win XP.
Another thing (which is not an issue on a Windows partition) : If you do not have writepermisson on the directory which the file resides in you cannot remove the file. You can change it, but not remove it.
I do have write permission to both the file and the directory. I checked this. Thanks for your attention and help. -- (o- Penguin #395953 lives at http://samvit.org //\ subsisting on ancient Indian wisdom ... V_/_ and modern computing efficiency! :)