Is is mounted read only? I thought that you checked that already, but it's worth a double check. ec wrote: > Wife, searching around found out that kde says hde6 is > a 'locked file'. What??? > > > > --- Phil Simpson wrote: > >>Everything is a file in Linux. >> >>On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 17:32 -0700, ec wrote: >> >>>I thought chmod was for individual files, not a >> >>whole >> >>>partation. >>> >>>Even after I installed to hde1 successfully, it >> >>will >> >>>NOT write to hde6! It does just fine on the >> >>partition >> >>>that the o/s is on (hde1), but refuses to write to >>>hde6, even after mounting and rt click, action, >> >>change >> >>>read write to writeable. >>> >>>What script would you use to change hde6 so hde1's >> >>o/s >> >>>can write to it? >>> >>>Quoting man chmod >>> >>>NAME >>> chmod - change file access permissions >>> >>>Note the 'file' not partition statement. >>> >>>--- "Eric \"Shubes\"" wrote: >>> >>>>ec wrote: >>>> >>>>>Used your mkfs script, still will NOT write to >> >>hd >> >>>>from >>>> >>>>>OO.o or kwrite on wife's machine. >>>>> >>>> >>>>Permissions problem? Remember chmod? >>>>-- >>>>-Eric 'shubes' >>>>"There is no such thing as the People; >>>> it is a collectivist myth. >>>> There are only individual citizens >>>> with individual wills >>>> and individual purposes." >>>>-William E. Simon (1927-2000), >>>> Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977) >>>> "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237 >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >> >>>>PLUG-discuss mailing list - >>>>PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>>>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you >> >>mail >> >>>>settings: >>>> >>> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >>>Cyclists should expect and demand safe >>>accommodation on our public roads, >>>just as does every other user. >>> >>>Nothing more is expected. >>> >>>Nothing less is acceptable! >>> >>>Long live Knoppix!! >>> >>> >>> >>>__________________________________ >>>Do you Yahoo!? >>>Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources >> >>site! >> >>>http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ >>> >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >> >>>PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> >>PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> >>>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail >> >>settings: >> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >>--------------------------------------------------- >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - >>PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail >>settings: >> > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > Cyclists should expect and demand safe > accommodation on our public roads, > just as does every other user. > > Nothing more is expected. > > Nothing less is acceptable! > > Long live Knoppix!! > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > -- -Eric 'shubes' "There is no such thing as the People; it is a collectivist myth. There are only individual citizens with individual wills and individual purposes." -William E. Simon (1927-2000), Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977) "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss