How to remove a damaged file

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 20:49 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 17:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > For this one I'd rather have an ext3 partition, if I can't recover it.
> > >
> > > then I suggest more along the lines of:
> > > mke2fs -v -c -c -j -L AnneWilsonPendrive  /dev/devicepartition
> > >
> > > '-c -c' -- Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file
> > > system. using a  slower,  read-write test instead of a fast read-only
> > > test.
> >
> I used that, and now I have the new partition, ext3.  However, although it 
> lists, it says I can't write to it.
> 
> brwxrwx--- 1 anne users 8, 49 Apr 23 20:37 /dev/sdd1
> 
> I'm trying to copy a directory 'Packages' from my desktop to the daneElec.  
> That gives
> 
> Access denied to /media/DaneElec/Packages.
> 
> if done in the gui, or
> 
> cp: cannot create regular file `/media/DaneElec/zsh-4.3.4-7.fc9.i386.rpm': 
> Permission denied
>  if done from the CLI.  What am Imissing?

Can you create anything on the pendrive (try "> /media/DaneElec/foo")?
Is the pendrive mounted read/write?
Are you doing this as root or as yourself?
Please post the output of "ls -ld /media/DaneElec", and of "mount|grep
DaneElec".

poc