Re: [SLE] Renaming on USB cards/Floppies

From: Sid Boyce (sboyce_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 06/14/04

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    Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:37:17 +0100
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    BandiPat wrote:

    >Hi all,
    >
    >I believe something of this nature has been discussed previously, but I
    >don't know if it was ever resolved. I believe the original was
    >something about actually writing too and removing files from a floppy
    >or usb storage device.
    >
    >I can read, write, and remove items from either, but when trying to
    >rename a file, copy & paste or cut & paste, I get the error!
    >"Writing to drives is not supported"
    >That happens to either device and I suspect it has something to do with
    >the subfs system SuSE has incorporated. I have not been able to find
    >anywhere in the system though, where this "information" window comes
    >from when it fails. Another little item is that I can open a shell,
    >move an item to rename it (mv /usb/name /usb/newname) and all things
    >are right again. The problem goes away after doing this.
    >
    >Any thoughts?
    >
    >Thanks,
    >Lee
    >
    >
    >
    I have a 128M usb card formatted as ext2
    # cp /boot/message /data2
    # mv /data2/message /data2/kernel_message
    # ls /data2
    . .. kernel_message lost+found SuSE_REMOTE_X_files SuSE_REMOTE_X.html

    Opened a session of konqueror as root and was able to copy a file
    /boot/backup.mbr to /data2/ and rename it to barrabas.mbr, I wonder if
    it's nothing as silly as permissions and owenerships, user trying to
    write to a directory owned by root e.g., I suspect you may have already
    checked those. As a user, I get a Permission denied rather than the
    message you reported.
    Regards
    Sid. 

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