[SOLVED] [SOLVED?] No USB permission

ferrari · 11-08-2018, 02:31 PM

What does the following report?

Code:

ls -lr /media/

Are you in a position to try using another removable device?

see3ducks · 11-08-2018, 03:18 PM

No other media. I did however install two other backup utilities and they both work just fine. I'll try that code later today.
Thanks !

ferrari · 11-08-2018, 03:43 PM

No need to do that if you've demonstrated that other back utilities work as expected. Maybe a bug report is needed for the Mint backup utility.

see3ducks · 11-08-2018, 05:29 PM

it looks to me like the drive is mounted under my name and not root. Gads, I wish I knew more about this sort of thing. Now to turn in a bug report however that it done :-)
Thanks !!

JeremyBoden · 11-08-2018, 08:54 PM

Backups normally (always?) run as root - so that all files etc can be read without problems.
This means that a backup running as root can write to any device.

I tried a version of the Mint backup and it asked me for a directory name - perhaps you should create a directory in your USB partition?
You need to check the instructions.

see3ducks · 11-08-2018, 10:13 PM

What I don't understand about Mint 19 backup is that it defaults to the main hard drive. What good it that if the HD fails. The older one just plain worked. I have Mint 17.3 32 bit on another computer and don't have any problems. Maybe they'll get it fixed in 19.1.
Thanks for the reply.