Won't allow me to change permissions

[sdat1333]

when I try to save something to my recently partitioned hard drive( I have an 8 gig ext3 partition for linux) it says "don't have access"
When I go to change the permissions to fix this, it says "Changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol devices. I really want to get this to work, but I am close to giving up.

[OErjan]

what does

 fdisk -l

say?
what does

mount

say?
what does

dmesg

say.
what is output of

cat /etc/fstab

[sdat1333]

fdisk -1 says:
Disk /dev/hda: 82.3 GB, 82347195904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 8694 69834523+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 8695 9738 8385930 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 9739 10011 2192872+ 82 Linux swap


mount says:
Disk /dev/hda: 82.3 GB, 82347195904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 8694 69834523+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 * 8695 9738 8385930 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 9739 10011 2192872+ 82 Linux swap


dmesg says:
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 GBT ) @ 0x000f6780
ACPI: RSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1fff3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1fff3040
ACPI: MADT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x01010101) @ 0x1fff77c0
ACPI: DSDT (v001 GBT AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 6:8 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0])
IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 3, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 low level)
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux(2.6)-2 ro root=302 ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off nomce quiet
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 1836.386 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 510936k/524224k available (1823k kernel code, 12528k reserved, 930k data, 264k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 3637.24 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1cbfbff 00000000 00000020
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
CPU0: AMD Sempron(tm) 2600+ stepping 01
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.44 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 1 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Total of 1 processors activated (3637.24 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected.
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1835.0855 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 333.0792 MHz.
Brought up 1 CPUs
CPU0: online
domain 0: span 00000001
groups: 00000001
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 3988k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfa070, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 6 *7 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 6 7 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] (IRQs 20) *0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] (IRQs 21) *0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] (IRQs 22) *0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] (IRQs 23) *0
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Scanning system for PnP BIOS support...
PnPBIOS: Found PnP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00faac0
PnPBIOS: PnP BIOS version 1.0, entry 0xf0000:0xaaf0, dseg 0xf0000
PnPBIOS: 13 nodes reported by PnP BIOS; 13 recorded by driver
SCSI subsystem initialized
00:00:09[A] -> 2-17 -> IRQ 17 level low
00:00:09[B] -> 2-18 -> IRQ 18 level low
00:00:09[C] -> 2-19 -> IRQ 19 level low
00:00:09[D] -> 2-16 -> IRQ 16 level low
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 21
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKB] enabled at IRQ 21
00:00:10[A] -> 2-21 -> IRQ 21 level low
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 20
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 20
00:00:11[A] -> 2-20 -> IRQ 20 level low
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 22
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKC] enabled at IRQ 22
00:00:11[C] -> 2-22 -> IRQ 22 level low
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 23
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKD] enabled at IRQ 23
00:00:11[D] -> 2-23 -> IRQ 23 level low
number of MP IRQ sources: 15.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
....... : Delivery Type: 0
....... : LTS : 0
.... register #01: 00178003
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : PRQ implemented: 1
....... : IO APIC version: 0003
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 001 01 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 71
0a 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
10 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
11 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
12 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
13 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
14 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
15 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
16 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9
17 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E1
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 0:2
IRQ1 -> 0:1
IRQ3 -> 0:3
IRQ4 -> 0:4
IRQ5 -> 0:5
IRQ6 -> 0:6
IRQ7 -> 0:7
IRQ8 -> 0:8
IRQ9 -> 0:9
IRQ10 -> 0:10
IRQ11 -> 0:11
IRQ12 -> 0:12
IRQ13 -> 0:13
IRQ14 -> 0:14
IRQ15 -> 0:15
IRQ16 -> 0:16
IRQ17 -> 0:17
IRQ18 -> 0:18
IRQ19 -> 0:19
IRQ20 -> 0:20
IRQ21 -> 0:21
IRQ22 -> 0:22
IRQ23 -> 0:23
.................................... done.
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xe0808000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:f910
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1100885602.713:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:10.2, from 10 to 5
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
Using anticipatory io scheduler
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt8237 (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci0000:00:0f.0
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: HDS722580VLAT20, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: DVSKOREADVD-ROM DSR1600H 011206a0, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CD-RW IDE2410, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: Host Protected Area detected.
current capacity is 160834367 sectors (82347 MB)
native capacity is 160836480 sectors (82348 MB)
hda: 160834367 sectors (82347 MB) w/1794KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
libata version 1.02 loaded.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 3276
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 15
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 264k freed
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 255): journal_recover: JBD: recovery, exit status 0, recovered transactions 1265 to 1320
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 257): journal_recover: JBD: Replayed 2631 and revoked 7/16 blocks
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: hda2: orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 395168
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 395169
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 395167
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 395165
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 395164
EXT3-fs: hda2: 5 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Adding 2192864k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call
Fix your initscripts?
ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: DVSKOREA Model: DVD-ROM DSR1600H Rev: db18
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: CDWRITER Model: IDE2410 Rev: A.23
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: irq 21, io base 0000dc00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#2)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: irq 21, io base 0000e000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (#3)
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: irq 21, io base 0000e400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:10.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04B8 pid 0x0005
usbcore: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
usb 1-1.2: new low speed USB device using address 4
usb 1-1.3: new full speed USB device using address 5
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 14 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
usb 1-1.4: new low speed USB device using address 6
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
hiddev96: USB HID v1.00 Device [American Power Conversion Back-UPS 350 FW: 5.4.D USB FW: c1 ] on usb-0000:00:10.0-1.4
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA CLE266 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0ced000, 00:10:b5:0d:13:d7, IRQ 17
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0cef000, 00:0d:61:a5:74:2b, IRQ 18
eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
cmpci: version $Revision: 6.82 $ time 04:02:24 Jul 28 2004
cmpci:
cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xd000 irq 19
cmpci: chip version = 055
mpu401: I/O port 0 already in use

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
cx2388x v4l2 driver version 0.0.3 loaded
cx8800[0]: found at 0000:00:0c.0, rev: 5, irq: 16, latency: 32, mmio: 0xea000000
cx8800[0]: subsystem: 0070:2801, board: UNKNOWN/GENERIC [card=0,autodetected]
cx8800[0]: i2c register ok
tuner: chip found at addr 0xc2 i2c-bus cx8800[0]
cx8800[0]: i2c attach [client=(tuner unset)]
cx8800[0]: registered device video0 [v4l2]
cx8800[0]: registered device vbi0
eth0: link down
NET: Registered protocol family 17
eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
mtrr: 0xd8000000,0x4000000 overlaps existing 0xd8000000,0x200000
eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c035fcc0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth1: no IPv6 routers present


cat /etc/fstab says:
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda3 none swap defaults 0 0



I hope you understand this because none of it makes any since to me/

[OErjan]

seems that you have everything OK.
exactly what are you trying to save and where?
what is the exact erormessage?
i am slightly mystified, could be that deafult is set to read only in Knoppix (might be that).
"i" would set the line below in MY fstab and reboot. if i get erors i can still edit it by remounting rw from a cdboot.
i changed defaults to rw on the fourth line from top of your /etc/fstab. could be done by root in any texteditor

sudo kedit /etc/fstab

should work i guess.

/dev/hda2 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 1

but if you have a poor mans install, a knoppix type install it wil be reset each time, then a remount to reead/write must be done each time you boot.

[sdat1333]

The exact error message is: "Changing the attributes of files is not supported with protocol devices"