[svlug] long shot HD question

Christian Einfeldt einfeldt at gmail.com
Wed May 28 21:18:34 PDT 2008


hi

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Philip Martin <phillip.martin at gmail.com>
wrote:

> well, mystery number 1 is solved: that drive has a vfat (as in
> windows) filesystem.  That filesystem does not support the idea of
> file ownership.  The only reason those file appear as owned by you is
> because of the option 'uid=1000' among the mount options.


> As to why you can't copy files...no idea.  What error message does it
> display?


Access denied.  Could not write to [new path]

Again, the freaky thing about this problem is that one of our DTP members
has been able to successfully write to this drive earlier.

Thanks in advance for any help.
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