Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-08 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dale wrote: ubiquitous1980 wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $f

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dale wrote: > ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> >>> On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: >>> >>> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this d

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-08 Thread John H. Moe
On 08/03/10 16:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: >> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I >> have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit >> editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 March 2010 09:33:07 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I > >> have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit > >> editing. Fu

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:51:32 +0800, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Discovered something: if the usb flash drive is mounted with nautilus, > there is no problem with permissions. If mounted from within console, > and mounted to /mnt/disk, issues with permissions begin. > If you mount it in a console, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-08 Thread Dale
ubiquitous1980 wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit editing. Further, the files within the directories

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-07 Thread ubiquitous1980
Discovered something: if the usb flash drive is mounted with nautilus, there is no problem with permissions. If mounted from within console, and mounted to /mnt/disk, issues with permissions begin.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-07 Thread ubiquitous1980
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >> I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I >> have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit >> editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have >> ow

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 08 March 2010 08:31:40 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I > have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit > editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have > ownership changed via chown $myuse

[gentoo-user] Cannot edit files on usb flash drive.

2010-03-07 Thread ubiquitous1980
I have a usb flash drive which will not allow me to edit its files. I have tried chmod a+rwx -R $files but this does still not permit editing. Further, the files within the directories refuse to have ownership changed via chown $myusername -R /mnt/disk. Output is: operation not permitted. Any i