[ubuntu-uk] External drive is stuck at read-only.

[Tony Arnold]

Neil,

Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On 29/01/2008, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Obviously, change <user> to your username, and <mountpoint> to the
>>> directory at which the drive is automounted. E.g. my command was
>>> actually "sudo chown neil:\ /media/FREECOM".
>> What's the :\ all about after the username?  I've not seen that syntax
>> before...
>>
> 
> Hi Sean,
> 
> I got the syntax wrong - it should be "chown neil\: <files>" - d'oh!
> So it's just quoting the colon from the shell.

There is no need to quote the colon. "chown tony: <files>" works just fine!

Regards,
Tony.
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