John Jason Jordan wrote: > I have spent th past hour trying to make a backup of my Home to an > external device and continue to fail. My Home folder is on a separate > partition, /dev/sdb2.The problem is that I cannot boot to the > installation and must boot to a live media. I have tried Xubuntu > 14.04.1 and Knoppix 7.2, both of which will happily mount the devices, > but refuse to allow me to write to them, even when mounted as root and > when I run the cp command as root. I realize the problem is that the > live media OS doesn't own the data, but there must be a way to copy the > data to an external drive. What is the secret? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug John,
Is there a mechanical interlock on the external drive? Have you tried sudo mount -o remount,rw "filesystem" to your target drive? Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
