On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:41:53AM EST, freeman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:28:55PM +0000, AG wrote: > > 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?
Missed this thread.. To the OP, have you tried: $ lsattr -d /path/to/usb/ # chattr -i /path/to/usb/ CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org