Guest BigDez Posted November 26, 2007 Report Share Posted November 26, 2007 Linux newbie, I am using a scandisk 4 gb USB and love it. I have used the max loop image of 2GB which is fine, but I can't save files like kwrite, etc to the USB. I have over a 1.4 of free space but it says. Not possible to save to file:///mnt/win_d/testfile I created a folder on the USB by logging in as root using Konqueror with these commands xhost + su - konqueror & but I couldn't give "guest" permissions after creating the folder. Obviously something I am doing wrong and could use your help. BigDez Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurch Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 sounds to me (and i am n00b) that you need to either change permissions of that directory so anybody can use it or create the directory as guest. su and give root password, then do: chmod -R 0777 /mnt/win_d/ that should do it, if it doesnt then you can change the ownership of the directory. su and give password, then do: chown -R guest:guest /mnt/win_d if the first one fails, try the second, if the second fails, see if you cant just open a kinqueror window and create the directory as user or as guest or as the defualt login person. then if all of that fails then i would guess that there is something else thats beyond me (again, i am n00b). good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted November 27, 2007 Report Share Posted November 27, 2007 what is /mnt/win_d? Is this a Windows partition? If so, what filesystem is it? edited after re-reading original post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phydeaux Posted November 29, 2007 Report Share Posted November 29, 2007 I would suggest that the problem lies in the fact that you are working with a read-only file system, both on your USB (where you have your running live distro) AND the mounted hard disk(s). You need to unmount "/mnt/win_d" ("umount /mnt/win_d"), then remount it as a read-write filesystem ("mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_d"). I am assuming that "win_d" is a second hard disk and is ntfs formatted, if it is a second partition on your C: drive then replace "hdb1" with "hda2". This should enable you to write data to "win_d". Regards, Phydeaux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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