On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Paul Erickson<va7nt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > After a couple of tries, I managed to get the disk formatted as an ext3 > partition. > Unfortunately, now when I try to copy files to it, it get an error message > > Error while copying. > > The folder "backup" cannot be copied because you do not have permissions to > create it in the destination. > > I tried using chmod to change the permissions on /dev/sdc, but this does not > solve the > problem. One good thing, Now when I plug the drive in, it is consistently > recognized by > the machine, so that is one step forward. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am guessing you were not doing the backups as root? Presumably you did your partition creation as root. I trust that when you plug in the drive is not only gets recognised but also puts an icon on the desktop. You should also find that it appears as /media/some-usb-diskname So become root (i.e. su - ) What I would suggest is that you make a directory with mkdir /media/some-usb-diskname/mybackups Then chmod 777 /media/some-usb-diskname/mybackups which will make the directory world writeable. Then try rsync -av some-directory /media/some-usb-diskname/mybackups/ This should certainly work as root but since the directory is now writeable by anybody it should also work as a normal user. You should then see /media/some-usb-diskname/mybackups/some-directory and the files and directories within it. If so then you should be good to go. -- mike -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
