From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amin Subject: Re: Can't write VFAT filesystem Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:20:09 +0600 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FA8EAF9.8090007@siriusbb.com> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20031104083631.01f742c0@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20031104083631.01f742c0@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > Well ... what does "ls -l /mnt/d/My\ Documents" tell you about ownership > of and permissions for that directory? Same questions for "ls -l > /mnt/d". Checking this info is the obvious place to start ... so basic, > really, that I wouldn't check anything else until I had verified that > the values reported here were sensible. Thanks, this worked. Turned out this was a permissions problem after all. Funny thing, I never think about permissions until I don't get them! Anyway, thanks very much. Yawar Amin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs