This laptop has one hard disk with two partitions. One of them has a bunch of data. I can’t delete the data at all, dolphin(the file manager) gives a “not enough permissions error”. When I try to delete stuff with rm it displays this:

rm: cannot remove ‘filename’: Read-only file system

What do I do?

EDIT: I backed up the data and reformatted the partition. This completely broke my install and fedora wouldn’t open at all. I popped in a live USB, backed up some other stuff and I am reinstalling fedora right now (writing this from the live installer :P)

  • mathemachristian [he/him]
    4•9 hours ago

    Look into /etc/fstab and check if there is ro next to the entry for the NTFS partition. Or give more info on your setup kinda hard to know what’s going wrong if we don’t know how you mount. Gnome file manager? Command line?