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The Friday 2007-08-31 at 22:52 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Aug 31 2007 22:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> >> Usually, the (actual) media is mounted as /media/myusbdrive or something,
> >> so
> >> why would zip write to /media?
> >
> >If the gui program you use understands that you are requesting to compress
> >the whole /media/myusbdrive it will try to do so to the parent dir, which
> >is, of course, /media, and it will fail.
>
> That would be a bit odd since if you zipped up "myusbdrive", you would
> have a (most likely) unwanted extra directory component in the archive.
I haven't tried konq., but compressing /media/myusbdrive with mc would
create the file /media/myusbdrive.zip, residing in /media. This would fail
for a normal user with "permission denied".
I'm just trying to guess what the OP did, though...
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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