Peter, On 2012-08-20 09:49, Peter Wolf wrote: [...]
peter@peter-System-Product-Name ~ $ mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/peter/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=peter) /dev/sr0 on /media/GROOVE_ARMADA type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,iocharset=utf8,umask=0077,dmode=0500,uhelper=udisks) /dev/sdg1 on /media/5a1069e0-28e6-485b-bb23-9bb6eb81f2ae type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks) peter@peter-System-Product-Name ~ $ ls /media 5a1069e0-28e6-485b-bb23-9bb6eb81f2ae floppy floppy0 GROOVE_ARMADA peter@peter-System-Product-Name ~ $ chmod 755 /media/5a* chmod: changing permissions of `/media/5a1069e0-28e6-485b-bb23-9bb6eb81f2ae': Operation not permitted peter@peter-System-Product-Name ~ $ sudo chmod 755 /media/5a* peter@peter-System-Product-Name ~ $ cp whimp.aup /media/5a* cp: cannot create regular file `/media/5a1069e0-28e6-485b-bb23-9bb6eb81f2ae/whimp.aup': Permission denied peter@peter-System-Product-Name ~ $ ls /media/5a* lost+found peter@peter-System-Product-Name ~ $ sudo cp whimp.aup /media/5a* peter@peter-System-Product-Name ~ $ ls /media/5a* lost+found whimp.aup
In order for us to be able to fully see and understand the problem, your 'ls' commands should all be long listings (ls -l) so that we can see the permissions that are actually set. Based on what I can already see though, it's likely that the root of the disk you're trying to write to is owned and grouped by root (ls -l will confirm), and you're chmodding to 755, which translates to rwxr-xr-x, meaning that only the owner can write to the disk. For everybody to be able to write to the disk you need to 'chmod 777', or for just you to be able to write to it, you need to 'chown $USER'. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Matthew Cengia