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    USB drive - modify content

    Kubuntu 11.10
    Installed it through Wubi - separate partition though
    KDE 4.7.1
    grub version - 0.97-29ubuntu64
    Other systems - Windows 7.
    It's installed on a Netbook - Asus eeePC 1005HA Seashell
    CPU: Intel Atom n270 32-bit
    GPU: Intel GMA 950
    RAM: 2GB
    HD: 1x SATA 160GB (three partitions)
    Optical Drives: none

    My problem is this - I want to modify any data I have on my USB stick. Don't want to copy it on to my drive, modify it and copy it on to the stick. How do I do that?
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    Don't you have the device notifier ?
    http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/DeviceNotifier

    Device notifier > Open with File Manager
    File Manager > Open with Image/Text/Whatever editor
    Have you tried ?

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      #3
      Re: USB drive - modify content

      It's Ok now. For some reason I had a problem with one particular directory. It made all my problems. Thanks to your post I kind of got the idea of removing it and creating a new one with the same name. Now I can move files where I want.

      Thing is I can't change the privileges of the files on that USB stick. I need rights to be set 0777. Since I won't be just using those files only on my PC.
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        Re: USB drive - modify content

        FAT32 filesystem has no permissions. What filesystem did you use on the USB stick?
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          FAT32
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            There you go. With a FAT32 file system, anyone can access the files.
            Windows no longer obstructs my view.
            Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
            "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes​
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              Re: USB drive - modify content

              Wish that it would be that simple...

              The directories have permisions set to 0700 and normal files to 0644.

              Can't change them even with
              Code:
               sudo chmod 0777
              Just to be sure I've checked - can't execute any files.

              I was thinking that maybe changing the file system would help. Then I could any permisions I want. Don't know which to choose..... "ntfs" would be nice sinice it would work under Windows as well. However that's not my priority. Right now I just want to set permisions to 0777 and work under Linux based systems. So, ....?
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                Re: USB drive - modify content

                Originally posted by radical_edo

                The directories have permisions set to 0700 and normal files to 0644.
                I don't think so. If they do, then it's not a FAT filesystem. If it's FAT, then they do not have any permissions set.

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_permissions

                DOS variants (including MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me) do not have permissions, only file attributes.
                Note that "read only" is a file attribute.

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
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                  Re: USB drive - modify content

                  Right, went and made that ext3. For the time being it seems that it's all OK. But, will know for sure when I'll test it on a other Linux system (on Friday to be exact ). Will spam more then (hopefully with "thanks" ).
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                    Re: USB drive - modify content

                    Kind of embarrassing, but thought I lost my USB stick, then I found it. Long story short - didn't checked if it works...

                    Have another question/problem though.
                    If I copy files to flash drive and unmount it by simply unplugging it the files are not there. I think that's because the USB is mounted with "async" parameter. Any ways of changing it?... I'm thinking when I'm using the "device notifier" not the regular
                    Code:
                    sudo mount...
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                      Re: USB drive - modify content

                      If you're using the device notifier, you should pop that thing back up and click the dismount arrow before you remove the drive.

                      If you're at a command line, you can enter

                      sync

                      to accomplish the same thing.
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