Hey,

I have an Iomega External Hard Drive 1TB.
Problem: Unable to write to Ext3 Partition.
How I got here:
Started off with going into windows and shrinking it's current NTFS partition down by 50GB. Then used an Ubuntu LiveCD to gain access to GParted and with that 50GB free I formatted it with an Ext3 system.
It does this no problems. I then can't write anything to this partition?
I've tried doing "chmod 777 /dev/sdb2" but it says Operation not Permitted.
Got any suggestions?


Thanks,
Aaron.


EDIT: Realized you may want the reason to why I'm doing this.
Need to be able to use it on YDL 6.2 on my PS3, YDL doesn't have NTFS write support and I want to transfer files larger than 4GB rendering Fat32 useless. No I'm not able to re-size or compress this large file.

You have to mount a directory on it first.

then you can write to /your/directory

/your/directory must exist first.

It might just be /directory that's up to you

Thanks for the reply, isn't that the same as right clicking the visible partition "Aaron" and choosing "Mount"
Although I tried what you said, first time it said I needed root access so I used Sudo and I don't know what to write for "/your/directory/"

EDIT: I tried
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /directory
And it says
Mount: mount point /directory does not exist

EDIT: Success
Ok, trying it now on YDL.


EDIT: Aaha another edit!
How do I find out what /dev/sd
It is?

Well you said sdb2 in your post, so that's what I used in the example.

type df -t ext3 in a terminal and if you've mounted it, it will be the empty one.

fdisk -l (that's small L for list) Dangerous stuff you're playing with, be careful you don't delete data that you want!

Considering he's already formatted sdb2 as ext3 it's a bit too late for that.

Yeah I know I said "Sdb2" but that was for my Ubuntu, and I found that out using GParted.
No GParted on YDL so I didn't know what one it was :S
Ended up guessing by trying each one
It was "Sda2"
I'll remember the "Fdisk -l" though!
Thanks heaps guys. It's working now ^_^
You're all awesome.

EDIT: Dangerous Stuff? Ahahaha I'll keep that in mind. Considering I changed it 15 times at the least :P

Oh I don't know, he might try guessing.....


Doh! Late again