Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:41:53AM EST, freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:28:55PM +0000, AG wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > 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 cannot change the permissions of this either as root directly
> > nor using sudo.
> >
> > Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
Missed this thread..
To the OP, have you tried:
$ lsattr -d /path/to/usb/
# chattr -i /path/to/usb/
CJ
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