On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM, David
<bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:
It could be a permissions problem if perhaps:
1) There are some original directories/files that you do not have
permission to overwrite.
2) You copy/pasted them to the external drive, thereby creating a
first copy with identical permissions.
3) You tried to do it again, which would involve overwriting the first
copies. This might fail because you don't have permission to overwrite
them.
I also had a similar problem but I know in my case it was user misunderstanding :) . I have a USB Drive that is permanently attached to a laptop in my radio shack for storing my RAW camera images. I created mount points for the 4 partitions on the drive (In Lubuntu 12.04) when I installed the OS in /mnt so it isnt auto magicially mounted in /media by the os as I don't unplug it and after the install I could not write to the drive. It turned out that the permissions for owner and group was set as root so a quick chown of the mount points fixed the problem. More then likely not related to your problem but an interesting side note for anyone doing the same thing as I did at install.
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