Paul Smith wrote:
On Dec 15, 2007 10:23 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have bought an external hard disk basically for backups. Which
format should I use to format it?
Mine came already formatted as NTFS, but I decided that since I was
backing up a linux system, I'd just feel better if I used ext3,
so I reformatted it to that for no particular technical reason :-).
Note that you can get to NTFS from linux by installing ntfs-3g
and ext2/3 from windows by installing Ext2IFS (http://www.fs-driver.org/),
so either filesystem can work for windows or for linux.
Thanks to both. I have formatted the external disk with ext3, and it
mounts well. However, when I try to copy something in it, I do not
have permission for that. How can I overcome this? Where should I
change the permissions?
If your backing up the whole of your Linux you need root because
many files are owned by root. So use a root terminal and you will not
have any mor problems.
But I am trying to copy a file not owned by root. Therefore, it should
be possible to copy as normal user.
Paul
Tell me more what your seeing. If you use in a terminal the call:
$ cp file /media/xyz
what does the error message say?
$ cp -v tent.pdf /media/disk/
`tent.pdf' -> `/media/disk/tent.pdf'
cp: cannot create regular file `/media/disk/tent.pdf': Permission denied
$
Paul
OK. Well then you must either use a root terminal or from a root
terminal you can use
# cd /media/disk
# chown your login
Karl
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