Write protected usb drive!!
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I use an external usb drive for backups and this is the first time I have used it with MEPIS. I can mount and see the drive under devices as /mnt/flash. I can also navigate directories and read files but I cannot make any changes at all to files or directories (including changing permissions) nor add any files or directories. As a result, it is useless as a backup drive. FWIW, I just booted into Win2000 and had complete access to the drive. Any sugestions appreciated. Thanks.
no luck
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I tried both changes, rebooted both times and still can't write to the disk.?? It does appear to be a permissions problem.?? WHen I try to change the permissions, I get an error which says "cannot change permissions on protocol devices".?? FWIW, I can r/w other usb drives.
figured it out!!
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The problem was that the drive was formated NTFS. Don't know why but MEPIS balked at making changes to the drive when it was connected via USB. I formated FAT32 and all is well.
Still any solution?
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Hi!
I got the same problem with usb drive permission.
Any solution apart from formating the disk in FAT32?
Reading and writing NTFS is still ...
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a risky business. Reverse engineering the NTFS security has not been easy. Here is the project that has made the most headway.
Reading an NTFS drive has not been a problem. However, WRITING to an NTFS drive is very difficult, especially creating new directories or saving new files.
Check out
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
and decide for yourself it it would be better to format your USB memory sticks as FAT32... or not...
OR
check out
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
and see if you can use the WINE wrappers of the real ntfs.sys drivers.
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GreyGeek
Heck...just format it as
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Heck...just format it as Reiser, and harass microsoft about their abysmal filesystem support.
That's the Open Source way of doing it.
Can you write to the flash dr
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Can you write to the flash drive when you are root? It might be a permission issue.
In my "/etc/fstab" file I have a line like this:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto noauto,users,rw
Is your similar? try to add "umask=000" if that is not working
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto noauto,users,rw,umask=000