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On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 17:40:52 +0100 bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Pro tip: nuke the offending USB stick, and start again from scratch - > this time, format it as NTFS rather than native as ext3/4. While that > might sound weird, NTFS is a perfectly decent filesystem and Linux can > handle it with no problem. Cross platform support is also excellent so > you'll have no issues with r/w access on Windows (obviously) and r/o > support on Mac OS (unless you install proper drivers from Paragon or > whoever). As long as you have ntfs-3g installed then your system will > just take care of everything for you and you won't have to worry about > permissions and other weirdness. > That is something I must look at. I have never tried NTFS. However, I have no need of cross platform at all. This USB stick is for my use only and I am a Linux only user for 15 years now. And wife and daughter likewise. I will still read up about NTFS though. > > In your case, you need to go brute force mode Neil: > > sudo chown -Rv neil:neil /media/neil/usb-device > > Where "neil" is presumed to be your username and the path should be > changed to wherever your device is getting mounted. Or umount it, and > mount it again manually wherever you like. Either way, 'touch > /path/to/usb-device/hello.world' afterwards should create the file for > you in the root of your thumbdrive without complaints. > > Cheers > Thanks, that worked. I will make a note of it in case I need it again. I haven't checked but I assume the -R is recursive and -v is verbose. I now need to find out why that worked but my attempt of sudo chown neilwin /media/neilwin/usb-device did not. As I said I did not get any error messages but nothing had changed. Permissions can indeed be a pain. Thanks Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq