How to save downloaded files using Knoppix?

[Eric "Shubes"]

joe 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
> 
What is the full mount command you used? Try:
# umount /mnt/hda3
# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

If that doesn't work, try adding the "-o rw" option:
# umount /mnt/hda3
# mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3

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-Eric 'shubes'