[ale] Stupid Question Time

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Sudo rm -rf /

That will fix it but it is the nuke it from orbit fix.
On Feb 3, 2012 9:55 AM, "Jim Kinney" <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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