On 18/08/2012, Hiddensoul (Mark Clohesy) <hiddensoul@twistedsouls.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM, David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
It could be a permissions problem if perhaps:
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I also had a similar problem but I know in my case it was user
[...] Like you, I was trying to give Peter some other possibilites to consider, but I distracted myself imagining his GUI scenario and temporarily forgot that he wrote this in his OP: On 18/08/2012, Peter Wolf <freakcycle@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
the message given both times was chmod: changing permissions of `/media/My Passport': Read-only file system
I think the "read only file system" part of that message indicates that at that time, for whatever reason, his drive filesystem was not mounted for writing. So I still think that it is most likely a mount problem, not incorrect permissions. Anyway, I find that mysterious problems not fixed usually return, so ... :)