rm not working

[Michael Havens]

hmmmm. It is mounted as rw and it doesn't recognize the command sudo. It
comes back with:

     zsh: correct 'sudo' to '_sudo' [nyae]?

and if I say 'y' it says:

     _arguments: comparguments:312: can only be called with completion
function.


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> In your case you might not have the disk mounted as rw but as ro.
>
> Check that then try "sudo su -" to get to root and rerun you em command
> On Feb 20, 2012 7:38 AM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>      what is going on? I'm trying to remove a directory and the contents
>> thereof:
>>
>> root at sysresccd /sda3 % ls
>> sda1
>> root at sysresccd /sda3 % rm -rf sda1
>> rm: cannot remove
>> `sda1/home/bmike1/.local/share/Trash/files/usr/local/openvpn_as/lib/python2.6/distutils':
>> Input/output error
>> rm: cannot remove `sda1/home/bmike1/.config/dconf': Input/output error
>> rm: cannot remove `sda1/home/bmike1/.config/gnome-session': Input/output
>> error
>> rm: cannot remove `sda1/home/bmike1/.config/software-center':
>> Input/output error
>> rm: cannot remove `sda1/home/bmike1/.config/ubuntuone': Input/output error
>> rm: cannot remove `sda1/home/bmike1/.config/eog': Input/output error
>> rm: cannot remove `sda1/home/bmike1/.config/banshee-1': Input/output error
>> rm: cannot remove `sda1/home/bmike1/.config/nautilus': Input/output error
>> rm: cannot remove `sda1/home/bmike1/.config/gedit': Input/output error
>>
>>       Then I noticed that I'm not root.root at sysresccd /sda3 % su
>>
>> su: Authentication failure
>> root at sysresccd /sda3 % sudo rm -rf sda1
>> zsh: correct 'sudo' to '_sudo' [nyae]? y
>> _arguments:comparguments:312: can only be called from completion function
>> root at sysresccd /sda3 % su root
>> su: Authentication failure
>> root at sysresccd /sda3 % su root <password>
>> su: Authentication failure
>> root at sysresccd /sda3 % man su
>> root at sysresccd /sda3 %
>>
>>      So this is my live cd so I figure that not being root is cool but
>> how do I delete the files?
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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