[vox-tech] Jumpdrive on Knoppix

[Jonathan Stickel]

Is this "jumpdrive" some usb device in some FAT format?  If so, there 
are ways to do what you want, but none of them would be remembered after 
rebooting Knoppix.

Jonathan


Richard Harke wrote:
> I spent some time today helping my wife with Knoppix.
> She has a lot of experience with Windows but tends
> to be baffled by command line programs. She would like
> to be able to use the jumpdrive under knoppix leaving
> the hard drive out of the picture (or at least remaining
> read-only) When we plugged in the jump drive, it was 
> recognized, the drivers were loaded and a drive assigned
> (/dev/sda1) However it wasn't mounted. After mounting,
> it was still a problem because it belonged to root. I tried
> to do a chown (as root) but kept getting operation not
> permitted messages. The best I was able to do was copy
> files, as root, between the jumpdrive and /home/knoppix
> So, the question is, how can I change the ownership?
> And then how can I have this happen automatically
> when I plug in the jumpdrive?
> Ideally, when I plug it in, it would be mounted to a
> sub-directory of /home/knoppix with the permissions
> set for the user knoppix
> 
> Richard Harke
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