Re: [SLE] USB sticks mini HOWTO

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To: Mike <mike@mikenjane.net>, suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:23:57 +0800

Thanks Silviu. It's work for me.

On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 03:44, Mike wrote:
> 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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