On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 5:57 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a couple of 256GB PNY USB 3.0 sticks, less that a year old, > which have had little use. One of them has been mounted in my laptop > (Xubuntu 16.04, up to date) for about a week, with numerous read/writes. > Suddenly, about an hour ago the laptop froze completely, no mouse, no > keyboard. I had to use the power switch. > > On rebooting I left the flash drive plugged in. When the boot process > was complete I could not mount it, and then I noticed that its red > 'activity' light was flashing rapidly. After a bit of poking around I > pulled it out, then re-inserted it. This time the light was flashing > continuously, although more slowly. I still could not mount or view > it, although the computer saw it. > > From the command line I found the problem, although it's strange. (Its > label is '256GB-2.') > > $ cd /media/ > /media$ cd jjj/ > $ ls -la > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Sep 1 17:11 256GB-2 > drwx------ 8 jjj jjj 4096 Mar 12 17:51 Data > drwxr-xr-x 2847 jjj jjj 221184 Sep 1 16:12 Movies > drwxr-xr-x 2788 jjj jjj 200704 Feb 9 2019 Synology > jjj@Devil-Bonobo:/media/jjj$ cd 256GB-2/ > bash: cd: 256GB-2/: Permission denied > jjj@Devil-Bonobo:/media/jjj$ sudo cd 256GB-2/ > sudo: cd: command not found > > I solved the problem with chown to retake ownership of the partition. > But root can't use the cd command? And how come the partition became > owned by root? > > It's not that _root_ can't use cd, it's that cd is incompatible with _sudo_. Use sudo ls or similar instead. -wes _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
