Sorry if I missed this question earlier: do you know what filesystem
is on it? If it is FAT32, then it won't save permissions, and if it
is NTFS, then your kernel may not have write support.
On 10-Dec-07, at 10:40 AM, vampyre wolf wrote:
> ok... wasn't able to find fstab...
>
> used chmod 777 to give me read/write access, though I still can't
> set ownership of it to user. Currently moving over a music folder
> to it without a problem from a different flash drive.
>
> Bigger problem right now is that it doesn't save settings or
> files.... almost like it thinks it's a live cd. I can modify my
> permissions, yet when I reboot it all defaults.
>
> Pulling my hair out here, would like to keep the xandros install,
> but I'm tempted to go ubuntu on here too.
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 9:51 AM, Dave Hall <dave-slg@dnh.sk.ca> wrote:
> Does Xandros have selinux included/enabled? That's one thing that
> could
> result in a non-obvious permissions problem.
>
> If you have selinux, you should be able to do the following:
>
> 'ls -Z' should show security context of files.
>
> 'id' and 'sudo id' should display your user and root security
> contexts.
>
> Here's a little more explanation of what some of this stuff means:
> http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/getting_started_with_SELinux/
> SELinux_overview.html
>
> Takes a bit to wrap your head around but once you do, it makes sense.
>
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>
> Dave
>
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