Re: folder permissions?

[Roger Searle]

Well I followed Sascha's advise and ran a disk scan in xp (nortons) 
which didn't find any problems.  I'm back in linux right now and it's 
behaving itself.  I can "touch /mnt/win_d empty" OK.

I have /mnt/win_d in fstab, and also created a link to the same called 
d_drive in /home/roger/documents.  Mozilla is definitely pointing to the 
right place.

I'll make sure my backups are happening daily in case the drive is about 
to go, however I've not noticed any other indication it's about to 
fail.  Yes, I know they can go with no warning - fingers and toes all 
crossed . . .

David Kirk wrote:
Well I shouldn't have spoken so soon, it's broken again!  
Suddenly back 
to the same problem with not being able to write to any of 
the folders.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] win_d]# touch /mnt/win_d empty2
touch: setting times of `/mnt/win_d': Read-only file system
touch: cannot touch `empty2': Read-only file system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] win_d]#
   

Try it again, but substitute the space with a slash
  touch /mnt/win_d/empty2
 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] win_d]# mount | grep win_d
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 on /mnt/win_d type vfat 
(rw,codepage=850,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] win_d]#

Interesting!  No idea what's going on . . .
   

Your first e-mail said you were trying to write to /home/roger/documents/d
drive but you have that partition mounted on /mnt/win_d.  Can you confirm
that your mail client is looking in the right place for your mailbox?
Later
David Kirk