I am trying to copy a file from my Download directory to my Desktop directory; but I am getting the Permission Denied Error. Directory and file permissions doesn't restrict me from copying (Directory perm: 755 , file perm:- 664).
sockets@ankit:~$ ls -ld D
Desktop/ Documents/ Downloads/
sockets@ankit:~$ ls -ld Downloads/ Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x 9 sockets sockets 4096 Jan 4 12:52 Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x 3 sockets sockets 4096 Jan 10 16:24 Downloads/
sockets@ankit:~$ ls -l Downloads/Ankit.pdf
-rw-rw-r-- 1 sockets sockets 96170 Jan 10 16:24 Downloads/Ankit.pdf
sockets@ankit:~$ cp Downloads/Ankit.pdf Desktop/Ankit.pdf
cp: cannot create regular file `Desktop/Ankit.pdf': Permission denied
Any ideas why I would be getting the permission error. I know I can use sudo to copy the file.
———-EDIT -1
sockets@ankit:/var/log$ df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 2501856 228878 2272978 10% /
udev 755379 510 754869 1% /dev
tmpfs 757578 431 757147 1% /run
none 757578 3 757575 1% /run/lock
none 757578 8 757570 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda6 27639808 37521 27602287 1% /home/mount
———-EDIT 2
sockets@ankit:~$ df -h | grep /dev/sd
/dev/sda1 38G 8.5G 28G 24% /
/dev/sda6 416G 87G 308G 22% /home/mount
/dev/sdc1 16G 2.1G 14G 14% /media/New Volume
sockets@ankit:~$ mount | grep /dev/sd
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda6 on /home/mount type ext4 (rw)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/New Volume type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks)
Best Answer
Here's another scenario that would cause the problem
In this case I already created a file in the destination directory with sudo so that it was owned by root. The file can not be overwritten by a normal cp command as user and results in a 'Permiision denied' error.