Linux Mint Deleting folders/ CHOWN

[itsme220]

Hi

I Have a ASUS RT-AC66U router and I have connected USB Drive. Enabled SAMBA SHARE.

The drive is I think NTFS or FAT32 Formated. I am not sure. it is 3TB Drive.

I have mounted this drive on my Linux Mint (Xfce). I can create folders, copy files etc. even delete folders if I create.

If already a folder with ownership root, I am unable to delete this folder. When I want to delete some files unable to delete if it is owned by root.

I have used

sudo chown -R username:username ./folderName

command to change ownership. Nothing works.

See below Image.

I can not delete Discovery folder.
The video folder I have created. I can delete easily from any PC.



how do I solve this problem?

Thanks

 

[davidktw]

Hi

I Have a ASUS RT-AC66U router and I have connected USB Drive. Enabled SAMBA SHARE.

The drive is I think NTFS or FAT32 Formated. I am not sure. it is 3TB Drive.

I have mounted this drive on my Linux Mint (Xfce). I can create folders, copy files etc. even delete folders if I create.

If already a folder with ownership root, I am unable to delete this folder. When I want to delete some files unable to delete if it is owned by root.

I have used

sudo chown -R username:username ./folderName

command to change ownership. Nothing works.

See below Image.

I can not delete Discovery folder.
The video folder I have created. I can delete easily from any PC.



how do I solve this problem?

Thanks

Have you tried delete as root user ?

sudo rm -rf Discovery

 

[itsme220]

Have you tried delete as root user ?

sudo rm -rf Discovery

Thank you davidktw for your reply. I have tried. It is not working.

At present I am mounting using the following command

sudo mount.cifs '\\192.168.1.1\shared' routershare -o user=[myusername],workgroup=WORKGROUP,password=xxxxx

when I type

johnc@dc7700 ~ $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use Mounted on
/dev/sda3 956977828 139826880 768516224 16 /
none 4 0 4 0 /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1005812 12 1005800 1% /dev
tmpfs 203964 1312 202652 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 1019820 76 1019744 1% /run/shm
none 102400 8 102392 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 463844 46388 388989 11% /boot
\\192.168.1.1\shared 1953480700 428321664 1525159036 22% /home/johnc/routershare

This may be due to cifs mount I am unable to delete. Even if I change it to root(sudo) the USB drive on the router is formated with NTFS or FAT. Not sure which one. It is 3TB single partition.

 

[davidktw]

Thank you davidktw for your reply. I have tried. It is not working.

At present I am mounting using the following command

sudo mount.cifs '\\192.168.1.1\shared' routershare -o user=[myusername],workgroup=WORKGROUP,password=xxxxx

when I type

johnc@dc7700 ~ $ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use Mounted on
/dev/sda3 956977828 139826880 768516224 16 /
none 4 0 4 0 /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1005812 12 1005800 1% /dev
tmpfs 203964 1312 202652 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 1019820 76 1019744 1% /run/shm
none 102400 8 102392 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 463844 46388 388989 11% /boot
\\192.168.1.1\shared 1953480700 428321664 1525159036 22% /home/johnc/routershare

This may be due to cifs mount I am unable to delete. Even if I change it to root(sudo) the USB drive on the router is formated with NTFS or FAT. Not sure which one. It is 3TB single partition.

I'm not exactly sure, might need to do some debugging to see the samba.logs to know exactly what happened ? If not you might wanna read http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/mount-cifs-network-drive-write-permissions-and-chown and see if any suggestions in there works for you.