On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 20:49 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 17:56, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
For this one I'd rather have an ext3 partition, if I can't recover it.
then I suggest more along the lines of: mke2fs -v -c -c -j -L AnneWilsonPendrive /dev/devicepartition
'-c -c' -- Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. using a slower, read-write test instead of a fast read-only test.
I used that, and now I have the new partition, ext3. However, although it lists, it says I can't write to it.
brwxrwx--- 1 anne users 8, 49 Apr 23 20:37 /dev/sdd1
I'm trying to copy a directory 'Packages' from my desktop to the daneElec. That gives
Access denied to /media/DaneElec/Packages.
if done in the gui, or
cp: cannot create regular file `/media/DaneElec/zsh-4.3.4-7.fc9.i386.rpm': Permission denied if done from the CLI. What am Imissing?
Can you create anything on the pendrive (try "> /media/DaneElec/foo")? Is the pendrive mounted read/write? Are you doing this as root or as yourself? Please post the output of "ls -ld /media/DaneElec", and of "mount|grep DaneElec".
poc