How to save downloaded files using Knoppix?

[joe]

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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