What's the output of

# mount

--- joe <joe@tlnf.com> wrote:

> .
> joe first wrote:
> > > How can I download and save files to my hard disk  
> > > when my system is booted up using a Knoppix Live CD?  
> > >  
> > > I tried mounting the system's hard disk with this:  
> > > # mount -o rw /mnt/hda3 ... but then when I tried  
> > > to save to /mnt/hda3, I got a message saying that  
> > > I didn't have write permissions.  
> > >  
> > > What do I need to do to get this to work?  
> 
> Others wrote: 
> > Is the hard drive you're trying to write to formatted NTFS or FAT32? 
> > If it's formatted NTFS you won't be able to write to it.  I have 
> > heard of people that were able to get write access to an NTFS 
> > partition under Linux.  I've also read that these attempts aren't 
> > always stable and can result in a loss of data on the NTFS partition.
> > 
> > Try this.  Get one of those portable USB thumb drives.  Knoppix will 
> > detect them and let you write to them.  If you have one and the data 
> > you want to save is too big for it, create a FAT32 partition on your 
> > hard drive.  If you don't want to do this, get one of those external 
> > hard drives that plugs into a USB port.  Just make sure it has a 
> > FAT32 partition on it.
> 
> All the partitions on the hard drive are ext3
> 
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