General Support - transferring files ixcentrik - 14.07.2006, 20:15 Uhr Titel: transferring files
sorry, basic questions from a newbie...
my computer crashed recently and i am using kanotix as a temporary bootdisk. i was hoping that i could transfer all my files from my hard drive onto my external hard drive... i have two problems though..
1. i can't find my exact files... going into my storage media gives me two folders, RRbackups and ~RRbackups... I'm not sure if these are the files I should transfer.
2. i can't write to my external drive. when i try changing the access permissions, it brings up an error message that says "could not change permissions for /media/sda1"
i have a feeling these might be really basic questions but i couldn't find the answers on the forums.
thanks for any help you can provide!
devil - 14.07.2006, 21:29 Uhr Titel: transferring files
well, for the backup files, no idea.
the external drive has what filesystem?
if its fat, as it is most the time, you could mount it by hand with:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 or whatever it is.
greetz
devil
ixcentrik - 14.07.2006, 22:50 Uhr Titel: RE: transferring files
okay, so now i can change the access permissions but for some reason, i get an error message whenever i try to copy something onto my external drive... it simply says "could not make folder /media/sdb1/nameoffolder"
any ideas?
(thanks and sorry, im being very newbie stupid right now... ;P)
eco2geek - 14.07.2006, 23:24 Uhr Titel:
If you know your drive's mounted read/write, are you doing this as root? It'd be easier if you were.
IIRC, you'd want to su in a console, then use passwd to set a root password, then exit to log out. Then issue the sux command to log on as root with X privileges, supply your new root password when asked, type konqueror --profile filemanagement & to bring up the file manager (as root), and away you go.
(Hopefully, your external hard drive's not formatted as NTFS. If so, the above ain't gonna work.)
devil - 15.07.2006, 06:12 Uhr Titel:
sux can be used directly, no need for su there.
to make a folder, become root and then: mkdir /media/sdb1/blabla