Question about mounting a filesystem

[Christopher Houdeshell]

Easiest way without getting involved with unmounting and mounting with the right permissions – `sudo chmod –R 777 /mnt/{USB DRIVE} & sudo chown –R {User} /mnt/{USB DRIVE}`

 

Chris.

 

From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Papillion
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 1:15 PM
To: Ubuntu Users List
Subject: Question about mounting a filesystem

 

Hello Everyone,

One of the few remaining computers in my household running Windows went down due to a registry corruption this morning. I've decided to reinstall the OS but want to rescue my data off of the filesystem before I hose it. When I tried to log into the Windows Recovery Console, it wouldn't let me no matter what I did so I grabbed my trusty Ubuntu LiveCD and booted the system. 

The LiveCD mounted the hard drive as /mnt/hda2 (/mnt/hda1 is my recovery partition) but it mounted it as read only. That's fine as reading is all I actually need to do with this drive. So I plugged in my portable USB drive thinking I'd just copy everything off my old filesystem to the removable drive and I found that I couldn't use it because I wasn't the "owner".  I could see the drive, but I couldn't write or delete anything to or from it.

How do I get around this? 
I've tried chgown or whatever the command is but it won't do it. It tells me permission was denied.

Help please!

Thanks in Advance,
Anthony

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