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xiaweitang

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Registered: 2010-01-03

Posts: 61

Why can't I change files in usb even as root ?!

fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.1 GB, 16131293184 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1961 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00042930

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        1961    15751701    7  HPFS/NTFS

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/

ls /media/ -l:
drwx------ 1 root root 4096 Jan 19 21:02 usb

sudo chmod -R 777 usb

su

cp /home/user/.alias.bash /media/usb/
cp: cannot create regular file `/media/usb/.alias.bash': Permission denied

michy99

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Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 21

Re: Why can't I change files in usb even as root ?!

Make sure you have ntfs-3g installed and then

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/usb

samsom

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Registered: 2009-07-17

Posts: 88

Re: Why can't I change files in usb even as root ?!

Make sure you have ntfs-3g installed and then

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/usb

Why do you need ntfs-3g for accesing a fat32 partition?
Would it work if he used the vfat option instead of ntfs-3g?
Samsom

Last edited by samsom (2010-01-27 12:14:06)

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Samsom

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: Why can't I change files in usb even as root ?!

Why do you need ntfs-3g for accesing a fat32 partition?

It's not a fat32 partition according to the output of fdisk -l.

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