Can't remove or change a directory

[Karl Larsen]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> James Pifer wrote:
>   
>> I have an fc7 box that I'm trying to remove a directory on. I don't
>> remember why I was playing with the directory permissions in the first
>> place, but I just want to get rid of it. 
>>
>> the directory is in /root and looks like this:
>> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 2007-11-09 15:35 tmp
>>
>> I can't do anything with it. Any file change I try to make, chmod, rm,
>> mv, etc I get this error like:
>> chmod: changing permissions of `tmp': Read-only file system
>>
>> How can I get rid of this directory? I've been googling in circles and
>> can't find a solution.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>>
>>     
> This sounds interesting. What is the output of the mount command?
> What exactly is the command you are trying to use to
> remove/rename/etc it? (rm /tmp or /rm /mnt/tmp?) Did you know that
> to remove a directory, you should use rmdir, and not rm? There is
> also "rm -d <directory>", but that is limited to root, and should be
> used with care.
>
> Mikkel
>   
    In a root Terminal use the forcing type of general directory removal 
that looks like this:

# rm -rf dir-name and it will be gone.

Karl