well, I'll zero out the drive. I was doing so earlier but unwittingly pulled the drive out when it was half-way done. it's funny, dd started at 15mb/s transfer rate and dropped to 5ish but this time it started a 5ish. On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 7:43 PM Michael wrote: > My other drive is constantly throwing permission denied at me. Even with > sudo. SO ti try to chmod it but I'm doing something wrong! My lack of > experience shows:( > michael@desktop1:/media/michael$ sudo chmod -r {drive} 777 > [sudo] password for michael: > chmod: cannot access '777': No such file or directory > michael@desktop1:/media/michael$ sudo chmod -r 777 {drive}/ > chmod: cannot access '777': No such file or directory > michael@desktop1:/media/michael$ > What am I doing wrong? > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: