Re: disk space (when i use cp)

[Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de>]

Am 2006-03-31 22:51:27, schrieb Wackojacko:

> I had this happen when the external device was not mounted (DVD-RAM in 
> my case).  As I understood it, if you copy to the mount point and the 
> device is not mounted the data will be copied to the local hdd.

Yes, but only if you are working as ROOT!  --  If I try to copy
some stuff to /media/usbkey and its not mounted I get a write-error.

Please consider to work as non-root which avoid many problems.


Greetings
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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