I run openSUSE 12.2, and I am both root and the only user. I bought a Kingston flash memory stick and have used it to do backups with rsync. I would like to do things differently now, and remove the existing directories that are there or at least create some new directories but the system will not let, keeps saying "read-only", whether I try as the user and owner or as root. How can I accomplish what I would like to do?
pe1800@linux-gkd7:/media/KINGSTON> ls -al
total 128
drwx------ 5 pe1800 users 32768 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Aug 19 11:25 ..
drwx------ 36 pe1800 users 32768 Aug 11 13:36 pe1800
drwx------ 3 pe1800 users 32768 May 30 17:34 pe1800-deletes
drwx------ 4 pe1800 users 32768 Aug 19 11:27 .Trash-1000
pe1800@linux-gkd7:/media/KINGSTON> rm -r pe1800
rm: cannot remove ‘pe1800’: Read-only file system
pe1800@linux-gkd7:/media/KINGSTON> mkdir BACKUP-SUSE-A
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘BACKUP-SUSE-A’: Read-only file system
pe1800@linux-gkd7:/media/KINGSTON>
Thank you,
pe1800
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pe1800@linux-gkd7:/media/KINGSTON> ls -al
total 128
drwx------ 5 pe1800 users 32768 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 80 Aug 19 11:25 ..
drwx------ 36 pe1800 users 32768 Aug 11 13:36 pe1800
drwx------ 3 pe1800 users 32768 May 30 17:34 pe1800-deletes
drwx------ 4 pe1800 users 32768 Aug 19 11:27 .Trash-1000
pe1800@linux-gkd7:/media/KINGSTON> rm -r pe1800
rm: cannot remove ‘pe1800’: Read-only file system
pe1800@linux-gkd7:/media/KINGSTON> mkdir BACKUP-SUSE-A
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘BACKUP-SUSE-A’: Read-only file system
pe1800@linux-gkd7:/media/KINGSTON>
pe1800