This article was co-authored by wikiHow staff writer, Nicole Levine, MFA. Nicole Levine is a Technology Writer and Editor for wikiHow. She has more than 20 years of experience creating technical documentation and leading support teams at major web hosting and software companies. Nicole also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Portland State University and teaches composition, fiction-writing, and zine-making at various institutions. The wikiHow Tech Team also followed the article's instructions and verified that they work. This article has been viewed 63,416 times. Learn more... If you want to delete a file that has read-only permissions in Linux, you have a few options. If the file belongs to you, you can either change the file's permissions or use the sudo command to delete the file as root. But if you're trying to delete a file that has write permissions and still can't delete it (or you see a "Read Only File System" error), you may need to remount the drive with proper permissions. We'll show you how to remove any read-only file on any Linux distribution, including Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Steps
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