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@gmail.com> wrote:

>      what is going on? I'm trying to remove a directory and the contents
> thereof:
>
> root@sysresccd /sda3 % ls
> sda1
> root@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@sysresccd /sda3 % su
>
> su: Authentication failure
> root@sysresccd /sda3 % sudo rm -rf sda1
> zsh: correct 'sudo' to '_sudo' [nyae]? y
> _arguments:comparguments:312: can only be called from completion function
> root@sysresccd /sda3 % su root
> su: Authentication failure
> root@sysresccd /sda3 % su root <password>
> su: Authentication failure
> root@sysresccd /sda3 % man su
> root@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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