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 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
