On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 13:53 -0800, Dos-Man 64 wrote: > I'm not saying that drives and their files shouldn't be initially > mounted as read-only; I just want to know how to override this. > > I've got a file here named pic1.png. It's on a 4 GIG removable hp > flash drive. When I right-click on it, it says the owner has read and > write priviledges. It also says that root and others have only read- > only priviledges. I'm trying to change this, but it isn't letting me. > > (btw, I'm in dreamlinux right now) > In Linux root has full command over the system. Despite permission settings root can always change them. So even if root is set to read only if you access the file as root you can change its permissions. Use the command gksu nautilus and give either your root or sudo password when prompted, the go to the file to change permissions.
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