Hum! Isn't there a common file system (FAT32, has been suggested to me) whereby I can use Windows and Linux? Before I lost it, I had an antiquated MP3 player that I'd cleaned out and used as a thumb drive and it handled both OSs without complaint.
Bill Bennett. Peter Chubb wrote: > 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! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
