-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: > I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and > media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it > worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have > access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I cannot > do back ups nor can I create new directories, etc. > > I have tried the usual approach to these kinds of issues, i.e. sudo > chmod -R 0755 /path/to/drive but this has absolutely no effect. I am > identified as the owner of the drive and as part of the group, but I > cannot change the permissions of this either as root directly nor using > sudo. > > Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
Just thoughts based on your spare information. Have you tried to fix owner and permissions of the mount point? It is not sufficient to have permissions on /path/to/drive, you also need the appropriate permissions on *all* parent directories. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksiTwoACgkQC1NzPRl9qEV0TACfU6yfUywIKCbgP6S8Pja2v86l vkgAn1+M+VEeXE4UBqRa7PwhaXDLrcz5 =0OTn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
