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On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 15:34 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > I'm going out on a limb here... it's a FAT32 formatted USB harddrive. > Since FAT32 doesn't actually support the idea of ownership or permissions, > they are faked when the device is mounted. The entries in your > "/etc/fstab" file should control what permissions are faked. > > In order to delete files, the person trying to delete the file needs to > have RWX permissions on it. You've said the file's ownership is "root - > root", and the permissions are RWX for the owner, R-X for the group and R-X > for everyone else. > > You'd either need to change the permissions in your fstab, or remove the > file as root. > > >From a command line (Konsole, perhaps?) you could run your application > (Konqueror, perhaps?) as root: > $ sudo konqueror Indeed. I had a block on thinking command line is command line only - of course I have many a time done sudo .... It worked fine thanks. Of course I mounted the device as root so that's presumably why owner was root! James -- james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html