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

[Neil Greenwood]

Hi Tony,

On 30/01/2008, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Neil Greenwood wrote:
> > 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!
>

Thanks for that Tony. The only reason I wrote it like that is that
that's how the tab completion finishes it off.

Hwyl,
Neil.