hatman
September 29th, 2008, 09:31 AM
I have a removable USB hard drive for backup purposes. I usually copy my photographs over to it but this last time I've plugged it in Ubuntu wont let me as I dont have the necessary permissions.
I've tried to change the permissions using gksudo nautilus and that wont change them (current owner is root), so I resorted to command line and went down the sudo chown route, and that wont let me either...
andy@downstairs:~$ sudo chown andy /media/sdd1/andy
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sdd1/andy': Operation not permitted
andy@downstairs:~$ sudo chown andy /media/sdd1/andy/Pictures
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sdd1/andy/Pictures': Operation not permitted
All I want to do is drag and drop my photo folders from my main hdd to my backup USB hdd, it worked previously, any ideas? I'm lost...
EDIT: I've managed to drag/drop the photos usung gksudo nautilus, but would still like to change the ownership from root to me so I dont have to mess around...
I've tried to change the permissions using gksudo nautilus and that wont change them (current owner is root), so I resorted to command line and went down the sudo chown route, and that wont let me either...
andy@downstairs:~$ sudo chown andy /media/sdd1/andy
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sdd1/andy': Operation not permitted
andy@downstairs:~$ sudo chown andy /media/sdd1/andy/Pictures
chown: changing ownership of `/media/sdd1/andy/Pictures': Operation not permitted
All I want to do is drag and drop my photo folders from my main hdd to my backup USB hdd, it worked previously, any ideas? I'm lost...
EDIT: I've managed to drag/drop the photos usung gksudo nautilus, but would still like to change the ownership from root to me so I dont have to mess around...