Read only access to partitions

roadrash · 03-10-2009, 02:01 PM

Hi I am using the latest linux mint and I can only get read only access to the partitions on on drive. I have replaced the original fstab with a new one I did myself but I still cannot get write priviliges. I'll post the original & my edited version of the fstabs for reference. can someone please help?

Original fstab#

Quote:

/etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda6
UUID=91f6c41f-6f0b-46a1-b7dd-248031b7bf16 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda10
UUID=e02a146c-ee46-82b2-9961-211f9c8ff0c4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda9 /media/sda9 vfat users 0 0
/dev/sda8 /media/sda8 ext3 errors=remount-ro,users 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ext3 errors=remount-ro,users 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext3 errors=remount-ro,users 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 vfat users 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,users,umask=000,ro 0 0

My modified fstab

Quote:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda6
UUID=91f6c41f-6f0b-46a1-b7dd-248031b7bf16 / ext3 defaults,noatime 0 0
# /dev/sda10
UUID=e02a146c-ee46-82b2-9961-211f9c8ff0c4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda9 /media/sda9 vfat noauto,users,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda8 /media/sda8 ext3 noauto,users,exec,rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ext3 noauto,users,exec,rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ext3 noauto,users,exec,rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 vfat noauto,users,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,relatime 0 0 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,users,umask=000,gid=users 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ext3 noauto,users,exec,relatime 0 0

jiml8 · 03-10-2009, 03:39 PM

look in /var/log/messages for information about why this is read only.

Commonly, the kernel will remount drives as read only when it detects a corrupted filesystem. Clean this up if you want to be able to write to the drives.

roadrash · 03-10-2009, 03:46 PM

I tried that and fsck says there are no errors. Which fstab should I use? the original or the one I modified.

roadrash · 03-10-2009, 06:35 PM

I found out what was causing it. My user needed to be in the groups "users" & "fuse".