no permissions to external hard drive Maxtor OneTouche II
Hi,
When I try to connect my external hard drive to my computer with SUSE10.1. I get no write access to it as root. It shows up as a removal device (New USB Stick Detected) on /dev/sda1/ and is mounted om /media/<harddisk-name>. Access permissions are: Owner: Can view content Group: Forbidden Others: Forbidden. Ownership: root / Group: root. And I can't change these permissions as root. Why not?? |
no permissions to external hard drive Maxtor OneTouche II
Hello,
If the filesystem of the partition is NTFS, the normal way is to mount the partition as read-only so it's not possible to write. If you want to do it, you have to umount the disk and remount it with ntfs write permissions. This may give some filesystem corruption. In my opinion on don't recommand the write on NTFS partition howerver some do it with no worries. -- free_ouyo |
Re: no permissions to external hard drive Maxtor OneTouche II
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right..
The file system is NTFS - so that explains the problem!
The purpose was only to transfer some files from one PC to another, but I have to sort it out another way. Thanks. |
You can still transfer files from NTFS to Linux using Midnight Commander as superuser :p
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