[PLUG] Error splicing file

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I reformatted it ext4 just now, but afterward I cannot read or write to it
> because it appears to be owned by root. (I used gparted to reformat it,
> which requires sudo to launch it.) I did sudo chmod 777 /media/jjj/128GB
> (the new label), which executed without error, but it still seems to be
> owned by root.

John,

   If the perms are set at 777 it does not matter who owns the directory. The
777 refer to read-write-execute for the owner, group members, and 'others.'
You're in the 'others' category so having read, write, and execute
permissions means you're good to go.

   On this workstation, now and again /opt is somehow reset to 755 rather than 777
so when I try to write a file to a subdirectory there it fails as I don't
have the correct permissions. Setting the perms back to 777 fixes the issue.
It does not matter that all directories under / are owned by root.root,
including your /home/ directory.

Rich