<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steven Rogers</b> <<a href="mailto:srogers1@austin.rr.com">srogers1@austin.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Nov 19, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Brian Durant wrote:<br><br>When you mount the file system, you may have to give it a -w to make it read/write (check out the man pages on mount for your system). You can try out that part by just attempting to copy some ordinary file, like a text file that you
<br>created in Xubuntu, just to make sure that you can write to that partition.</blockquote><div><br>Unfortunately, while I see your -w command in the man pages, I don't understand much of what the man page has to say on the matter. When I run 'sudo mount -w hfsplus /dev/sdb3 /mnt/osx' in the terminal, I get a prompt with possible commands in mount. I have tried to it the partition in /etc/fstab as well, but that doesn't seem to help either. Or is this about 'sudo mount -w hfsplus /dev/sdc12 /mnt/osx2'???
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You have to also specify what owner you're changing it to, in<br>addition to the file path. But don't worry about that. "sudo cp" is
<br>giving you access to the files without changing the owner - you just<br>need write access to the target location.</blockquote><br>I can't copy any file from Xubuntu /dev/sda to /dev/sdc12 either. I'm getting really confused here :-(
<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Brian<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br></blockquote></div><br>