Unable to write to new partitions

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 14:46:27 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>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).

This is geek talk, Colin already indirectly pointed this out,
fortunately Ian is smart enough, to translate my geek explanation into
understandable user language. However, lately Bret runs into an
understandable misinterpretation.

Tom, without doubts, you and I know that even "sudo" could behave
different, when using different sources for "sudo" ;). IOW some issues
could mushroom. IOW there is no absolute for "unless you're root",
unless a "real" root account is enabled.

Let alone that the issue Bret mentioned is tricky, since rootm, is root,
is root, is root, but there anyway are pitfalls, at least the umask
pitfall.