RE: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable
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>From: computing.account@googlemail.com
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: RE: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable
>Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:28:55 +0000
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>>I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and
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>>media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it
>>worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only
>have
>>access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I
>cannot
>>do back ups nor can I create new directories, etc.
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>>I have tried the usual approach to these kinds of issues, i.e. sudo
>>chmod -R 0755 /path/to/drive but this has absolutely no effect. I
>am
>>identified as the owner of the drive and as part of the group, but I
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>>cannot change the permissions of this either as root directly nor
>using
>>sudo.
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>>Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
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>>Thanks
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>>AG
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Perhaps trite but most such drives have a hardware write-protect
switch on the drive. Perhaps it accidently got moved.
Larry
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