[ale] Stupid Question Time

[Jim Kinney]

Do a 'ls /media/sdc1' and see if anything is there. If not. no need to
rmdir. If you plug back in the same drive(s) they will get mounted at the
same location.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michael Nolan <michaeldnolan at gmail.com>wrote:

> (Sorry about the sleep deprived post last night, misspelled words are
> always a dead giveaway the next morning...)
>
> And thanks once again for responses, I know this stuff is simpleton
> level for most of you....
>
> I was reading in another thread about "root" (which was _way_ over my
> head).... but I'd like to get a critique about the correctness of the
> ugly commands below and my thought process in getting rid of the
> offending empty dir's.
>
> Also, is there any way to search the Ale.org archives other than using
> Google advanced search or "[target] site:ale.org"
>
> mike at Pappy:/media$ rmdir sdc1
> rmdir: failed to remove `sdc1': Permission denied
>
> mike at Pappy:/media$ ls -l
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 16 mike mike 4096 2012-02-02 10:15 2T_ext3
> drwxrwxr-x  3 mike mike    0 2012-01-27 08:36 pogoplug
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2012-01-13 21:02 sdc1
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2012-01-13 21:03 sdc3
> mike at Pappy:/media$
>
> Obviously root owns the two dir's
>
> so:
>
> mike at Pappy:/media$ chown mike /media/sdc1
> chown: changing ownership of `/media/sdc1': Operation not permitted
>
> so:
>
> mike at Pappy:/media$  sudo su
>
> root at Pappy:/media#
>
> root at Pappy:/media# rmdir sdc1
> root at Pappy:/media# rmdir sdc3
> root at Pappy:/media# exit
> exit
> mike at Pappy:/media$ ls
> 2T_ext3  pogoplug
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