The Xfce GUI file manager (Thunar) refused to let me copy files from /media/1TBDisk3/Movies/ to /media/Movies/ on my desktop computer by dragging and dropping. So I decided to try the cp command instead. This also failed. The command I used was:
$ cp -r /media/1TBDisk3/* /media/Movies/ Eventually I tried "sudo chown -r jjj:jjj /media" and then the above command worked. It took a long time because there were a lot of files (I left it copying files when I went to bed last night), but this morning I saw that the command line returned to $.So I tried to umount the drive in order to move it to my laptop, but I kept getting the "drive is busy" error message. However, all drive lights had been out for hours so I just unplugged it. Now it is plugged into the laptop and apparently mounted: $ mount /dev/sdc on /media/Movies type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks) But I am unable to perform file operations with Thunar or Nautilus. So I tried from the command line and got: [jjj@Devil8 Movies]$ rm -r New Folder/ rm: remove write-protected directory `New Folder'? y rm: cannot remove `New Folder': Permission denied The permissions for all folders and files on the disk are drwxr-xr-x. I could try chown again, but I am wondering if I messed up when I did that on the other computer. I am jjj:jjj on both computers. There is also a 2 GB SD card mounted on the laptop (0123-4567), and from the command line I get: [jjj@Devil8 media]$ ls -la total 12 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 100 Mar 15 08:20 . drwxr-xr-x. 30 root root 4096 Nov 17 08:00 .. drwx------ 3 jjj jjj 4096 Dec 31 1969 0123-4567 -rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 13 20:05 .hal-mtab-lock drwxr-xr-x 10 1000 1000 4096 Mar 14 22:43 Movies Clearly the permissions for the 2 GB SD card (which works as expected) and the 3 TB USB drive are different, which must be the source of the problem. What I can't figure out is what "10 1000 1000" means on the Movies drive or how to get chown (or chmod?) to change the permissions on it to match the 0123-4567 drive. I read the man pages for chown and chmod and now I'm more confused than before. Suggestions? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
