Re: My book and backup question

Gene Heskett <[email protected]> Sun, 4 Dec 2011 21:54:24 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.expert
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On Sunday, December 04, 2011 09:52:37 PM Phil did opine:

> On 04/12/11 16:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Sunday, December 04, 2011 01:29:53 AM Phil did opine:
> >> I've just bought a Western Digital My Book 1 tera byte usb drive
> >> which works well except for the purpose that I bought it for.
> > 
> > Because there probably is not room for a 2nd drive, you are probably
> > going to need a drive in a usb enclosure.  But that is what you have.
> >  Do you have permissions to write to that volume when running as the
> > normal user?
> 
> Thanks for taking the time to answer Gene. As is often the case the
> solution was simpler than I had expected.

Yeah, thanks & NP.  I saw that go by in the next message.  But it doesn't 
hurt to 'keep the channels open' either.  Glad you got it working.

Cheers, Gene
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