CentOS-5.7 using fuse-ntfs-3g
I have a HDD from a laptop that is being returned for
repair replacement. I wish to remove certain files before
sending the laptop back with the HDD.
I have mouunted the HDD on my desktop as an ntfs
filesystem using an external SATA / USB adapter. As root
I then used the gnome desktop to move the desired files to
trash. Now I wish to delete the contents of the trash
folder and the folder itself. This I cannot do. I have
tried deleting using rm -rf ./.Trash-root but the command
simply has no effect. It raises no error and it does not
remove the Directory or its contents.
For convenience I renamed the directory to DeleteME using
move, which worked. As expected through, all attempts to
remove DeleteME still fail silently. The permission bits
are set thus:
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 488 Oct 21 10:54 DeleteMe
I have tried chmod -R 777 DeleteMe but this has no effect
on the permissions.
How do I get rid of this thing?
I realize that after the trash directory is removed I will
still have to over-write the unused space on the drive to
scramble the contents but I cannot get to that stage until
I free the space.
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