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Old 10-09-2008, 07:16 PM   #1
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unable to write to my usb flash drive.


[fc-9 live-usb]
this is weird, basically no-one except for root can write to the empty space of my usb disk.

Code:
[root@localhost schneidz]# pwd
/media/disk/schneidz
[root@localhost schneidz]# ll
total 0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 akuma
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 chun-li
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 h4x0rz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 l33t
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 world
[root@localhost schneidz]# mount
/dev/mapper/live-rw on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500,umask=000,dmask=000,fmask=000)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/fedora/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=fedora)
[root@localhost schneidz]# chown schneidz akuma
chown: changing ownership of `akuma': Operation not permitted
[root@localhost schneidz]# chmod 777 *
[root@localhost schneidz]# chmod -R 777 .
[root@localhost schneidz]# ll
total 0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 akuma
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 chun-li
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 h4x0rz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 hello
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 l33t
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 2008-10-09 19:58 world
[root@localhost schneidz]# exit
logout

[schneidz@localhost schneidz]$ touch foobar
touch: cannot touch `foobar': Permission denied
anyone care to make sense of this.
 
Old 10-09-2008, 08:50 PM   #2
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as far as chown & chmod is concerned...

vfat doesn't support such operations. Can you reformat the device as ext2 (i.e. something *nix based)

BTW who is UID 500 ? is it schneidz?
 
Old 10-09-2008, 11:11 PM   #3
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vfat doesn't support such operations. Can you reformat the device as ext2 (i.e. something *nix based)

BTW who is UID 500 ? is it schneidz?
thx, this tutorial says to use vfat: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo
i'll try ext2...

yes, i renamed the default 'fedora' user to 'schneidz'
 
Old 10-10-2008, 05:48 PM   #4
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it works when you format the drive as ext2.

thx,
 
Old 10-13-2008, 09:30 PM   #5
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No problem, but
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this tutorial says to use vfat
yes, so I may have not helped at all

Decided to try making a usb live boot myself. The syslinux command doesn't work with an ext2 file system (expects a fat filesystem).

I'm working with sysrescuecd
http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-m...n_an_USB-stick , not fedora, but I'm sure it's the same principle.
 
  


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