[NBLUG/talk] Adding a used second HDD

troy fryman at sonic.net
Wed Nov 17 10:39:16 PST 2004


On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 10:28:52AM -0800, Robert Hayes wrote:
> I know I've read the solution to this somewhere, but can't find it now.
> 
> I've removed a second (data only) 10GB hdd from an old machine, and installed 
> it as /dev/hdd in my Debian box.
> 
> I find that the disk has a fat32 filesystem on it. 
> 
> I want to retain the files, but I can't change the permissions on them to 
> allow moving, even when I'm logged in as root.

Make sure it's mounted rw, is all I can think of:

mount -t vfat -o rw,uid=bob,gid=bob /dev/hdd1 /mnt/something


-troy





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