Hi everyone, I've been using kubuntu for a while now and I'm enjoying it immensely. It is a rock solid OS with such polish that I hardly miss windows OS. As a linux newbie I do run into some trouble off and on again.
Recently purchased a brand new USB stick and used KDE partition manager to format it to ext4 (since I planned on using it with linux OS exclusively). There are many formats and after some research I settled on ext4 but let me know if this is not the right format or best format for a USB stick meant to be used to contain data/backup files.
Everything went well and when it was done I safely removed it from my desktop and inserted it into my laptop (also kubuntu) but noticed that it would not allow me to copy or move any files onto it.
I was confused so I tried plugging it back into the desktop and noticed the same thing! the machine that had just formatted it wouldn't allow me to copy anything over to it.
Next I thought something had gone wrong with the formatting so this time I tried formatting it again but this time on the laptop. Same thing, it wouldn't allow me to copy any files to it.
After some googling, discovered that this had something to do with permissions or ownership so following what I found online, I plugged in the USB into the laptop and after unmounting it, I typed the following command into konsole: sudo chown name:name /dev/sdb1
although there was no konsole output after that command it seemed to have worked because after mounting the USB drive it seemed to accept files now. So I tested it by copying /home/ (as a test run of a simple back up method) but noticed that it would continuously ask me for permissions to copy a certain file. It could copy and then pause, with a pop-up window asking me to enter the password for it to copy a file, I would enter the password and it would continue copying, pause again, asking for the password, again and again, until I just gave up frustrated and stopped the backup/copying of /home/
So obviously I'm missing something here. Coming from a windows environment, I never imagined that formatting a USB and copying some files onto it would be this challenging for a linux newbie. Clearly there is some built-in security measures that I'm not aware of or taking into account. Would really appreciate any assistance you could offer.
If anything above isn't clear please let me know. Thank you in advance.
Recently purchased a brand new USB stick and used KDE partition manager to format it to ext4 (since I planned on using it with linux OS exclusively). There are many formats and after some research I settled on ext4 but let me know if this is not the right format or best format for a USB stick meant to be used to contain data/backup files.
Everything went well and when it was done I safely removed it from my desktop and inserted it into my laptop (also kubuntu) but noticed that it would not allow me to copy or move any files onto it.
I was confused so I tried plugging it back into the desktop and noticed the same thing! the machine that had just formatted it wouldn't allow me to copy anything over to it.
Next I thought something had gone wrong with the formatting so this time I tried formatting it again but this time on the laptop. Same thing, it wouldn't allow me to copy any files to it.
After some googling, discovered that this had something to do with permissions or ownership so following what I found online, I plugged in the USB into the laptop and after unmounting it, I typed the following command into konsole: sudo chown name:name /dev/sdb1
although there was no konsole output after that command it seemed to have worked because after mounting the USB drive it seemed to accept files now. So I tested it by copying /home/ (as a test run of a simple back up method) but noticed that it would continuously ask me for permissions to copy a certain file. It could copy and then pause, with a pop-up window asking me to enter the password for it to copy a file, I would enter the password and it would continue copying, pause again, asking for the password, again and again, until I just gave up frustrated and stopped the backup/copying of /home/
So obviously I'm missing something here. Coming from a windows environment, I never imagined that formatting a USB and copying some files onto it would be this challenging for a linux newbie. Clearly there is some built-in security measures that I'm not aware of or taking into account. Would really appreciate any assistance you could offer.
If anything above isn't clear please let me know. Thank you in advance.
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