>>>>> "wbennett" == wbennett <[email protected]> writes:
wbennett> I've been given a small thumbdrive. I can copy a file to wbennett> the drive. The drive changes the file's permissions and will wbennett> not allow them to be altered: Sounds like you have a DOS file system on there -- it doesn't \ obey UNIX file permissions. You can reformat the drive as, say, ext2, but this will make the resulting filesystem unusable on any platform other than linux. To try this, do mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 (or whatever the name of the drive is). Not while the drive is mounted! -- Dr Peter Chubb peter DOT chubb AT nicta.com.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia All things shall perish from under the sky/Music alone shall live, never to die -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
