Question about mounting a filesystem

Anthony Papillion papillion at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 19:53:18 UTC 2008


On 1/10/08, Christopher Houdeshell <choudeshell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  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
>

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the info. So the system has assigned sda5 as the drive name for
the USB drive now. So I did a sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt/sda5 and then an sudo
chown -R root /mnt/sda5. It went through every file on the drive but did not
change the filesystem from Read Only. I'm not even sure I own it now (I
probably don't since read only would probably prevent the system from
reassigning owner).

What else can I do?

Thanks,.
Anthony
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