Re: [Hampshire] remove viruses on external HDD from Linux b…

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Author: Lisi
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] remove viruses on external HDD from Linux box
On Friday 10 October 2008 14:33:53 Hugo Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 02:09:52PM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > Could some kind soul tell me what the command should be if I want the
> > filesystem to be read/write (so that I can remove the infected files)? I
> > am running as root from the command line (and have the box disconnected
> > from the router). My last attempt was:
> >
> > # mount -t ntfs -rw /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
> >
> > When I used rm I again got the error message
> >
> > # [snip] Read-only file system
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
>
>    Trying to mount an NTFS filesystem using the in-kernel NTFS
> filesystem driver. It's a read-only driver.

>
>    Take a look at ntfs3g[1].

>
>    Hugo.

>
> [1] http://www.ntfs-3g.org/


Thanks, Hugo. I'll certainly read it.

Lisi