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.