> Yes, this is true re: I am owner. I thought umask=000 was supposed to
> take care of that?! How did I get this working previously and not
> now?!?
A couple things can cause it. One reason I asked for your dmesg
output is that if the FAT32 gets messed up at all, it can be
mounted, but forced into read-only mode (by you).
Another - withOUT your drive mounted, what are the permissions
of the /media/LACIE folder? It will be left behind - usually.
Make sure you've already set that at 777.
> Unfortunately, ext2/3 is not an option for me. (Is it actually possible
> to convert from FAT32 to ext2/3 without formatting or destroying your
> data?)
No, it's not...find a friend who will lend you a drive overnight
:-)
> dmesg stuff (well, the stuff that seems relevant!):
I will presume you didn't miss any lines about "Setting device
to read-only mode" or anything like that.
Still, your problems have all the classic markings of the
FAT32/permissions challenge. I dealt with it all the time,
before I switched to ext3.
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