Question about mounting a filesystem

[Glenn S]

I am not sure if this will help you - it did myself with a similar problem.
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11637.html

thanks
Glenn


On 11/01/2008, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> >
> > --
> > ...about the greatest democrazy in the world.
> >
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