On 22 December 2011 11:11, Scott Ferguson <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 22/12/11 21:35, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> On 22 December 2011 02:04, Scott Ferguson >> <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 22/12/11 12:39, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>> On 22 December 2011 00:59, Scott Ferguson >>>> <prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On 22/12/11 11:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: > <snipped> > >>> >>>> >>>> Thanks Sharon. >>> >>> >>> Cheers (and happy solstice season) >>> >> I've just tried to create a folder on the external h/d which failed. >> This is the error report;- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> mkdir /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/test >> mkdir: cannot create directory >> `/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/test': Permission denied >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> Any ideas for a solution please? >> >> Sharon. > > I don't know who you ran that command as.... I'm "assuming" you ran it a > user as you don't post sudo.
Correct. > > Is that the UUID of your removable USB drive? yes. > Is that the same directory you gave to boztu earlier. eg.:- > $ sudo chown -R boztu:boztu /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/ yes > > If you that ^ is what you did - please post the output of:- > $ ls -alL /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/ http://paste.debian.net/149929/ > > (if it's more than just a dozen lines, and they're all consistent please > trim). > > > NOTE: the "$" means run as non-root, I shall put "$ sudo" or "#" to > indicate "run as root". > > How do you mount your removable USB drive - /etc/fstab? SOLID? or some > other mechanism? Gnome automounts it on reboot. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian 6,0.3, Gnome 1:2.30+7, LibreOffice 3.4.4 Registered Linux user 334501 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cam9u--coz64bzpdtq6t-5byerzj5ypunj6zvxstqurn2tpe...@mail.gmail.com
