Hi Have a look here http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=97328 Per On 1/29/09 3:15 PM, "Anne Wilson" <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > I appear to have lost the whole of my home directory on my centos > server (which includes all my mail saved from the last 7 years). > Although I have recent backups of most data I would like to copy > important files from /etc, and, if possible, /var/logs so that I can > try to find out what went wrong. However, knoppix refuses to let me > write to either my usb hdd or usb pendrive. Does anyone know how to > persuade it? > > Thanks > > Anne > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos