[X-Newbies] DiskWarrior recovery help.

[Steven Rogers]

On Nov 19, 2006, at 3:06 PM, Brian Durant wrote:

> you might be able to copy them with sudo cp -R, as in: sudo cp -R
> your-user-dir  backup-partition
>
> sudo cp -R "user-dir" /mnt/osx2 returns:
>
> cp: cannot create directory `/mnt/osx2/"user-dir"': Read-only file  
> system

Its getting kind of tricky at this point, but it seems like this is  
working on the copy-from side, so you don't have to worry about doing  
"chown" to get access to the files. 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  
created in Xubuntu, just to make sure that you can write to that  
partition.

> "chown: missing operand after `/mnt/osx2'
> Try `chown --help' for more information."

You have to also specify what owner you're changing it to, in  
addition to the file path. But don't worry about that. "sudo cp" is  
giving you access to the files without changing the owner - you just  
need write access to the target location.

SR