Can't change permissions of drive in Nemo or with chmod
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 1:08 pm
Hi,
I just bought an external floppy drive to transfer to and from some old PCs. It works on Mint, but there's one major problem: only root can create/delete files on the floppy disk.
I figured it'd be easy to fix, so I tried
and attempted to set the disk permissions for "others" to "Create and delete files":
But it changed itself back to "Access Files". So I thought, OK, I'll use the command line:
... what?
So I'm wondering what causes this, and how I can write to this disk without root. Should I just
or would that cause other problems?
Thanks,
--xereeto
I just bought an external floppy drive to transfer to and from some old PCs. It works on Mint, but there's one major problem: only root can create/delete files on the floppy disk.
I figured it'd be easy to fix, so I tried
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gksu nemo
But it changed itself back to "Access Files". So I thought, OK, I'll use the command line:
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xereeto@sirius:/media/xereeto$ sudo chmod +w /media/xereeto/disk
xereeto@sirius:/media/xereeto$ ls -l
total 7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 7168 Jan 25 16:56 disk
So I'm wondering what causes this, and how I can write to this disk without root. Should I just
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sudo chown xereeto /media/xereeto/disk
Thanks,
--xereeto