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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] External hard drives
  • From: Thomas Adam <thomas_adam16@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 23:53:50 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <20040716235041.50407.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
--- Paul Taylor <ptaylor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Friday 16 Jul 2004 23:09, you wrote:
> > mount /dev/foo -o defaults /somewhere

> I did this and something similar just after I wrote. It now reads the
> drive
> but will not write to it?

What filesystem is it using. What's the output from "ls -l /dev/foo",
where "/dev/foo" is the partition you're mounting....

-- Thomas Adam

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