File transfer problem

[Karl F. Larsen]

	Consider this: you have a hard drive in a small case with a 
lot of files on an ext3 file system that is accessed via a USB 
port. You plug the USB into a Ubuntu 9.04 computer and a panel 
comes up showing all the files. You plug the USB into WinXP it 
shows up in My Computer but shows no files.

	So you take the files to the Ubuntu but there is no way to 
put them in the /dev/sda5 partition. I tried sudo cp -a * 
/dev/sda5 and it errors out.

	Then I tried to mount the /dev/sda5 at /mnt but that fails 
too. The call I tried was $ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda5 /mnt 
and changed vfat to ntsf and several others and just got an 
error message.

	What I would like to do is copy the files on the little hard 
drive to the computer which has WinXP and Ubuntu 9.04 in the 
/dev/sda5 partition.


	Does anyone have an idea how to start?

73 Karl



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