| Re: Off Topic UNIX Question [message #57277 is a reply to message #57222] |
Wed, 05 December 2007 12:50   |
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Paul Van Delst[1]
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Vince Hradil wrote:
> On Dec 5, 1:42 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>> Greg Hennessy writes:
>>> I highly suspect that the owner and group info on the TRAVELDRIVE
>>> isn't the same as the user you use on linux. Can you check to see if
>>> you are the user?
>> Well, a whoami tells me I'm "david". That seems good. :-)
>>
>> I'm suspecting another problem. For the record, I did
>> delete a file off the drive (after I had copied it onto
>> the drive). After the delete, I could no longer copy onto
>> the drive. Something about the Trash...?
>>
>> Weird. I may just try reformatting the stick.
>>
>> David
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
>> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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> David,
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> I found this thread elsewhere:http://suseforums.net/index.php?
> showtopic=30360
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> In particular it says, "SUSE's handling of USB flash memory drives is
> screwed up, since about two years." With a few suggestions near the
> bottom. Living both in Windows and Linux is not for the faint of
> heart...
FWIW, I had a similar problem with my thumb drive under RHE 3.0 - I needed the constant
intervention of my sysadmin to "unstick" things so I could again write to it. Moving to
RHE 4.0 fixed the problem.
Maybe you simply need to upgrade your work computer to Suse 10.3?
cheers,
paulv
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