Unable to write to new partitions

[Tom H]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:22:31 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>> The missing write access much likely is caused by a pitfall, the
>> missing execution access permission of the directory.
>
> PS: Keep in mind a directory can't be executable, just a file could be
> executable, IOW the x bit on a folder refers to "indexing".

You can't access a directory if it isn't executable (unless you're root).