First Full Backup on Usb: Permission Denied
I Am New to Ubuntu 13.04. I Am Trying to Do a Full Backup to My Usb and I Have Used Gparted to Create a Partition on My Usb and Formatted It as Ext4. It Still...
I am new to Ubuntu 13.04. I am trying to do a full backup to my USB and I have used GParted to create a partition on my USB and formatted it as ext4. It still has permission denied errors. I get this message:
Permission denied when trying to create ‘/media/stacyjane/ubuntu backup/duplicity-full.20130726T043854Z.vol1.difftar.gpg
1 Answer
You need to set ownership & permissions.
If mounted at /media/stacyjane
sudo chmod -R a+rwX,o-w /media/stacyjane
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /media/stacyjane
Note that the -R is recursion and everything is changed, do NOT run on any system partitions. All directories will be 775. All files will be 664 except those that were set as executable to begin with.
The -R parameter is recursive, so it will apply to all lower directories & files, but do not use on any system partition, just data.
see also
man chmod
man chown
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