USB External HDD issue

dustinW · 02-25-2009, 11:18 PM

My external hdd will let me create folders in the main directory and sometimes in some of the others but any time I try to create a folder in my music directory it says I don't have permission and then I can't create folders in any directory.

/etc/fstab looks like this

Code:

/dev/sdb1 /media/seagate auto rw,user,noauto,fmask=777,dmask=777,umask=000 0 0

How might I fix that?

File format: Fat32
OS: Debian Linux Squeeze
DE: Gnome

routers · 02-26-2009, 01:27 AM

try to change end of the line from 0 0 to 1 0

dustinW · 02-26-2009, 12:31 PM

Still doesn't work. When I right click on the folder and click permissions it says I have read/write access, though.
Maybe god just hates me and doesn't want me to transfer files with my external...

routers · 02-27-2009, 07:50 PM

try to use as simple as mine

Code:

/dev/sda5               /export/mnt/w32/        vfat auto,rw,umask=000  1 0

mounting path is not the issue but i always mount everything in /export (perposely)

for auto usb hdd or others from media u can try chmod 777 media