Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-30 Thread Neil Greenwood
Hi Tony, On 30/01/2008, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Greenwood wrote: > > I got the syntax wrong - it should be "chown neil\: " - d'oh! > > So it's just quoting the colon from the shell. > > There is no need to quote the colon. "chown tony: " works just fine! > Thanks for that To

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-30 Thread Tony Arnold
Neil, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 29/01/2008, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Obviously, change to your username, and to the >>> directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was >>> actually "sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM". >> What's the :\ all about after the use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-30 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 29/01/2008, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Obviously, change to your username, and to the > > directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was > > actually "sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM". > > What's the :\ all about after the username? I've not seen that sy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Jenkins
Joshua Scotton wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 02:01 +, Tom Bamford wrote: > >> Andrew Jenkins wrote: >> >>> Daniel Davies wrote: >>> >>> Andrew Jenkins wrote: > I've > recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > it up I h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua Scotton
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 02:01 +, Tom Bamford wrote: > Andrew Jenkins wrote: > > Daniel Davies wrote: > > > > > Andrew Jenkins wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've > > > > recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > > > > it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. > > > > All

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-29 Thread Sean Miller
> Obviously, change to your username, and to the > directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was > actually "sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM". What's the :\ all about after the username? I've not seen that syntax before... Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-29 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 28/01/2008, Andrew Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. > All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a > couple of Gb of files to it. > > After I disconnected it and plugged it back in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-28 Thread Tom Bamford
Andrew Jenkins wrote: Daniel Davies wrote: Andrew Jenkins wrote: I've recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a couple of Gb of files to it. After I disconnected it and plugg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Jenkins
Daniel Davies wrote: > Andrew Jenkins wrote: > >> I've >> recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set >> it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. >> All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a >> couple of Gb of files to it. >> >> After I disconnected it and plugged it back

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-28 Thread whoredom
If it's a FreeAgent this may be of some help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=494673 If not, have a look at any /etc/fstab entry it may have. On 28/01/2008, Daniel Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Jenkins wrote: > > I've > > recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Davies
Andrew Jenkins wrote: > I've > recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set > it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. > All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a > couple of Gb of files to it. > > After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my > machine it suddenly deci

[ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Jenkins
I've recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set it up I had it connected as an external USB drive. All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a couple of Gb of files to it. After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my machine it suddenly decided to be a read-only file system. I