Question about mounting a filesystem

[Anthony Papillion]

OK this is still not working. When I issued either of these commands I got a
message saying "/dev/sda5 is not a valid block device." That's confusing as
I thought ALL hard disks (external or not) were block devices.

I am totally lost. I am fuiriously scanning through documentation but I
simply cannot find a way to make this external USB drive writable. Any more
help is GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,
Anthony

On 1/11/08, Rolf Kutz <rk at vzsze.de> wrote:
>
> On 10/01/08 15:02 -0500, Christopher Houdeshell wrote:
> >Sorry – I read your email wrong. I thought you meant user couldn't not
> write, not system….Anyhow,
> >
> >                `sudo umount /mnt/sda5`
> >
> >                `mount –t auto –o user,rw,exec,umask=000 /dev/sda5
> /mnt/sda5`
>
> or
> $ sudo mount -o remount,user,rw,exec,umask=000 /mnt/sda5
>
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