Author: Rob Malpass Date: To: rob, Hampshire LUG Discussion List CC: Subject: Re: [Hampshire] USB hard drives in Feisty
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 18:43 +0000, Rob Malpass wrote: > Hi all
>
> It seems I'm having a bit of a mare with permissions at the moment...
>
> I've just plugged in a USB (with a healthy ext3 partition) hard drive
> into Ubuntu and it's recognised it with no problems. Trouble is, it's
> mounted read only and I can't see an easy way around this.
>
> If doing it via the GUI, unmounting it works, but then it's
> automatically remounted before I can do anything - and it's remounted as
> read only.
>
> I can mount it via the terminal as rw but while it accepts the mount
> command:
>
> sudo mount -o rw /dev/disk /mnt/disk
>
> I still get a permission denied when I attempt a simple write:
>
> uname -a > fred (assuming I'm in /mnt/disk).
>
> I must be missing something obvious - can anyone help?
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
>
> Well - not quite sure why this should be but I have a solution courtesy
of gparted...
Format the thing as NTFS (with the NTFS packages installed) and it's now
allowing a write.
