Right-clicking on the usb device icon [Hard Disk Partition (sda1)] and choosing Actions -> Change read/write mode worked for me. I had previously su'ed in a terminal and changed the root password. I don't think that was necessary but I include it just in case it was.

--Mike Goggin

Bob Ackerman wrote:

I did drop down to the shell prompt and type 'su' to get to root. I checked permissions at that level and they were fine yet I was unable to copy to the USB device, nor could create a directory. I did not try to use a floppy because most of my files were at least 2MB in size and would not fit.

There must be some little command or option I am missing.

Bob Ackerman



Justin West wrote:

Ya, I think I got this issue resolved by just logging in as root (su), then writing to the drive was no problem for me. May not be good practice, but it worked.

Benjamin Story wrote:

rootme ?
Bob Ackerman wrote:

I friend asked me to help recover some files from his crashed and non-startable Windows 98 system (and no, I haven't talked him into Linux, yet). I am using Knoppix 3.3 and I get the system started and here is my problem. I need to write to an USB attached device, either a flash drive or a USB HDD (I have both). Each device mounts properly (/mnt/sda1 and /mnt/sda2) and I can see all contents of each device. What I need to do is to be able to write to these drives. Now the permissions appear to be set properly and I checked the /etc/mtab file and the USB is referenced as follows (I suspect is default Knoppix):

usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode 0666 0 0

Does anybody have some suggestions? This is the first time I used Knoppix to recover files from a crashed system and I am looking for some success here.

Thanks,

Bob Ackerman


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