Linux newbie alert:
I need to recover 20GB of critical files from a hard drive that was an e-smith server, which I've attached as a firewire external drive to a Windows desktop that I have booted with a Knoppix CD. My goal is simply to copy the files from the external drive to the mount Windows desktop drive.
The external drive mounts itself just fine - when I list the /mnt directory I get this:
total 14
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 6 09:31 auto
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 6 08:25 cdrom -> /mnt/auto/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Oct 6 08:25 floppy -> /mnt/auto/floppy
dr-xr-xr-x 1 knoppix knoppix 8192 Sept 15 05:00 sda1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 6 08:25 sdb1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 6 08:25 sdb5
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Jul 18 2003 sdb6
I can navigate via the graphical interface to the /mnt/sdb6 directory, which contains the e-smith hard drive. As I drill down, the data files I need are locked. When listed in the console, the relevant directory is as follows:
drwxr-s--- 2 telnetd 500 4096 Feb 15 2001 files
I have tried to change ownership to root in the root console but I get the message that the directory is a read-only file system. I look forward to your advice...
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