Flashdrive troubles...
Posted: 14 May 2014, 22:24
I put Porteus on a flash drive (San Disk Cruiser 8GB) and It stuck a few read only files (.55 GB) on it that I want to get rid of. They only show up in the terminal with ls after I mkdir /mnt/usb then mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usb ls.
base, modules, optional and rootcopy are also directories.... but you get the point... all of this is read only and I can't get rid of it. I have another 7.45 GB on the drive and the flag is set to boot, but the disk is not bootable without something else on it, so it's wasted space. It says they are read only and the owner is unknown. How can I get rid of these files and free up the disk?
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myputer usb # ls
boot porteus USB_INSTALLATION.txt
myputer usb # cd boot
myputer boot # ls
docs Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe
Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com syslinux
myputer boot # cd syslinux
myputer syslinux # ls
chain.c32 isolinux.bin lilo.conf porteus.png vmlinuz
extlinux.conf isolinux.boot plpbt syslinux.cfg
initrd.xz isolinux.cfg porteus.cfg vesamenu.c32
myputer syslinux # cd ..
myputer boot # ls
docs Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe
Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com syslinux
myputer boot # cd docs
myputer docs # ls
cheatcodes.txt GNU_GPL install.txt License.txt requirements.txt
myputer docs # cd ..
myputer boot # ls
docs Porteus-installer-for-Windows.exe
Porteus-installer-for-Linux.com syslinux
myputer boot # cd ..
myputer usb # ls
boot porteus USB_INSTALLATION.txt
myputer usb # cd porteus
myputer porteus # ls
base make_iso.sh modules optional porteus-v3.0-x86_64.sgn rootcopy