Re: [SLE] USB sticks mini HOWTO

From: Mike (mike_at_mikenjane.net)
Date: 06/11/04

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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 21:44:35 +0200

    On Friday 11 June 2004 11:41, Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:
    > Mike wrote:
    > > Nope.. It WAS writeable in linux and winders. Guess again. It's
    > > formatted with fat NOT ntfs. Has been since I bought it. Worked
    > > fine in 9.0, and for that matter still does. Can't even change
    > > permissions as root.
    >
    > You are trying to change permissions on a FAT volume? FAT doesn't
    > have permissions. What you see is something that linux puts there
    > depending on how you mounted the volume.

    The drive is automounted via subfs. I'm trying to get SUSE 9.1 to allow
    me to write to the drive. It won't do it. It tells me that writing to
    the drive isn't supported. What a crock. Try to change permissions on
    the drive, via a right click on properties, and it won't allow it.
    Can't change permissions, can't even do it as root. Switching to
    another console logged in as root, and it won't let me chmod it, or
    chown it. Writing to the usb stick isn't allowed.

    > Regarding USB sticks, I've seen that they come formatted in a strange
    > setup, from the vendor.

    I've had the drive for over a year. Same format, 1 partition. Guess
    again. Doesn't need to be formatted.

    I guess it's not going to happen until enough folks have problems with
    it. I've already sent in feedback to SUSE, but other than the
    auto-response message, I've not heard or seen anything.

    Mike 

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