How to remove a damaged file

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 22:31, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 08:49:26PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > 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
>
> You want to see permissions on a directory where you are trying
> to write and not a block device.  Not the same level.
>
You're right - owned by root:root.  Packages are transferring now.  I presume 
that root ownership is fine anyway for both installs and updates.

No other problems, Michal.  Just working past the time that the brain stays 
active :-)

Anne