rm not working

[Stephen]

weird... i might suggest you rtfm on system rescue cd about
manipulating file systems

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
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Stephen