I don't see why it would be a disaster later. You can always change them the way you want when your backup is complete. Failing that, what does ls -l /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 say. also sudo fdisk -l . We will get you through this..
-- Pat On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 9:38 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014 21:02:47 -0700 > Ken Stephens <k...@cad2cam.com> dijo: > > >John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I have spent th past hour trying to make a backup of my Home to an > >> external device and continue to fail. My Home folder is on a separate > >> partition, /dev/sdb2.The problem is that I cannot boot to the > >> installation and must boot to a live media. I have tried Xubuntu > >> 14.04.1 and Knoppix 7.2, both of which will happily mount the > >> devices, but refuse to allow me to write to them, even when mounted > >> as root and when I run the cp command as root. I realize the problem > >> is that the live media OS doesn't own the data, but there must be a > >> way to copy the data to an external drive. What is the secret? > > >Is there a mechanical interlock on the external drive? > > No. It is an external USB drive. > > >Have you tried sudo mount -o remount,rw "filesystem" to your target > >drive? > > I just tried it. The following commands executed without error (both > drives were already mounted, and the folders in /media had already been > created) > > sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdb2 /media/Home2 > sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/sdc /media/Movies > > But when I try to copy anything from /media/Home2 > to /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 it fails because it cannot create > folders in /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 ("permission denied"). > > i believe the problem is ownership, but if I change the ownership of the > files in /dev/sdb2 it will be a disaster later. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- p.j.timl...@ieee.org www.timlick.com 503-476-3119 P.O. Box 581 Dundee OR 97115 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug