[hblug] read only HDD

[chris morris]

Ok the weird shizt is out in force today..

Cleaning out old crap in a kubuntu machine..
did  rm -r [20gb-folder-of-rubbish] which duly vanished
tried to create a new folder on same drive and I'm told the drive is 
read-only!
WTF
so: I go sudo chmod 777 Maxtor40
and I'm told "Read-only file system"
WTF I thought root was god.

Jump into QTparted and the drive isnt there....oops!

I can ls the drive and see remaining directories and I can ls into them..
WTF lol

So bottom line: Konsole can access the drive but not write to it ( even 
as root ) and QTparted doesnt even see it....
Is this Linux's funny way of telling me the drive is stuffed ?


chris.