After years of accumulating scan results, my HDD is filled up to within 2GB
of its 1TB capacity, so operations of most kinds are excruciatingly slow. It
really does not like editing 2GB text files in LeafPad.
I acquired a new SanDisk 256GB drive, removed its partition table, and
formatted
the new partition ext4 with GParted.
Using sudo, I created folders and even changed permissions using
sudo chmod -R 755 Thumb256A
... but they don't change: still root, through & through.
The thumb drive mounts itself when I place it in the USB port, but the
permissions
impasse won't let me cut & paste into it.
I have another 256GB thumb drive which was never reluctant to accept new
files, but
I don't remember what I did right with that one that I'm not doing today.
It's
full, too, however.
The 'puter is a Lenovo T420 ThinkPad running flidas with 8GB of RAM and 18GB
of
swap space.
I'm not used to devices that are more difficult to use with trisquel than was
the
task of getting them out of the maker's packaging.
George Langford
