i can not drag and drop from desktop or any device to floppy disk.

wafe12345 · 08-16-2017, 09:20 PM

i tried the following commands sudo adduser eric floppy and logged out, and it changed nothing.
i also tried sudo adduser eric root and nothing.
it keeps telling me that only root can copy to floppy drive.

yancek · 08-16-2017, 09:30 PM

Adding a user with the adduser command just adds the user it doesn't give that user root/sudo permissions. If you want to copy to any location outside the /home/user directory you will almost always need to do it as root/sudo or grand the user ownership of the directory to which the floppy is mounted with the chown command.

AwesomeMachine · 08-16-2017, 09:43 PM

There are other means to copy files besides the GUI tool. OR you can launch the GUI tool as root from a terminal.

wafe12345 · 08-16-2017, 09:59 PM

dejank · 08-17-2017, 03:12 AM

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=chown+comm...b=v59-3&ia=web

Also, man chown.

wafe12345 · 08-18-2017, 05:25 PM

so i went in to root then i did chown -R eric floppy and nothing.

JeremyBoden · 08-18-2017, 06:58 PM

Presumably floppy is meant to represent an antiquated floppy disk(?????).

Reading the man chown carefully, yields

Code:

chown -R eric:floppy /path/to/some-directory

where eric is a user name and floppy is a group user.

AwesomeMachine · 08-18-2017, 07:04 PM

the chown command takes user:group file/directory as arguments. You didn't read the man page very well. You also must specify the /full/path/to/file_or_directory. Don't give up. Many people have learned Linux.

I have faith in you!

Edit, writing while JeremyBoden was posting.

wafe12345 · 08-20-2017, 01:31 PM

ok so would it be chown -R eirc: floppy /media/floppy
or chown -R eric /media/floppy