Ubuntu and windows file exchange; Copy Problem

[Tim Frost]

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 18:42 +0100, Umut Tabak wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> While installing Ubuntu I have created a Fat32 partition of 5 GB to
> exchance files with Windows; now the problem is that I cannot see that
> partition from linux(or I am looking at the wrong places). I have sda1,
> sda2 (which I cannot see inside due to a permission conflict).Message is
> "You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "sda2"".
> 
> I again get a permission error while trying to copy a file with 
> 
> cp deneme.cpp /home/ 
> 
> error is
> 
> cp: cannot create regular file `/home/deneme.cpp': Permission denied
> 
Unless you have done something strange, your home directory will
be /home/umut (assuming that you used "umut" as the user name).

With the bash shell that is Ubuntu's default shell, you can always refer
to your home directory by using the symbol "~".  So you could copy the
file deneme.cpp to your home directory with
   cp deneme.cpp ~


The error is because the directory called /home is owned by the "root"
user, not by you.


> This must be a very simple operation but still a problem for me
> 
> Comments on exchanging and copying??
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Umut
>