On Sunday 02 February 2020 01:34:23 Thomas D. Dean wrote: > On 2020-02-01 22:09, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have a 64G sd card in the reader with a raspbian buster full > > install on it. I would assume that the first, boot partition is dos > > or vfat for its filesystem. > > > > I have a realtime build of 4.19.100-rt41 that I am trying to write > > to this cards /boot partition. If with mc, running as root, attempts > > to copy a file, I get a no-perms popup, but the file is now showing > > in the right pane, renamed with a * added as first character. But if > > its a directory, the directory is created anyway but is empty. cd > > into that dir on both panes and try to copy a file, I get the > > no-perms, but the file is copied anyway, but renamed with an > > asterisk as an added first character. And theres nearly 1900 files > > to copy and fix the names. > > > > dosfsck says its fine, and mc says the perms on all files are all > > owned by root:root, perms 40755. I own all the files with the same > > 40755 perms that I'm trying to put on this supposed vfat partition > > since I did the makes on the pi4. du says he src dir is 12 megs. > > > > fdisk -l /dev/sdf says: > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > > /dev/sdf1 8192 532479 524288 256M c W95 FAT32 (LBA) > > /dev/sdf2 532480 13303807 12771328 6.1G 83 Linux > > > > What is going on? > > What OS are you using? > > I have never used mc.
mc=swiss army knife of file stuff. Been doing what I need it to do since I found it in '98. uptime is over30 days, might be time to reboot, but I want fresh coffee and both eyes open before I do that. > How much room do you have on sdf1? Can you See above, 256 megs, maybe 30 used if that much. > create a file on sdf1? Mount it and use something like touch. > > Tom Dean > Looks like mc has a problem, root can create and save a file, then delete it. Touch works too, so its mc that needs a slap upside the head. > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users