[SOLVED] additional hhd seems to be read only

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 10:00 AM

hope this is in right place.

ive added a second hard drive for storage (its got a fresh installed 'Mint' on it I think, which I intend to remove) to my recently acquired laptop, a lenovo x230 coreboot with Debian 10 Mate as the OS. It has a 120 gig ssd, so fairly small, hence the addition of an old hhd that was laying around.

Debian 'sees' the hhd when i mount it, but I cant copy anything to it, or format it with gparted. So i assume its read only.

i was going to follow some instructions from youtube involving adding a text line to fstab, but fstab in etc doesn't seem to exist. I am floundering so hope a boffin might be along to help and advise please? :-)

BW-userx · 02-05-2020, 11:20 AM

you need to make it yours.

Code:

ls -la /drives location

if it is root root, you can change the permissions. 777, or change ownership.

Code:

su
passwd
chmod 777 /path/to/drive -R
or
chown userName:group /path/to/drive

https://www.howtoforge.com/linux-chown-command/

edit:
oh yeah, you might want to see what the file system type is on it, and such. format it ect.. no formatting with gparted. check its SMART is it still a good hdd?

does it spin up?

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 12:13 PM

user@debian:~$ ls -la /drives location
ls: cannot access '/drives': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'location': No such file or directory
user@debian:~$

Above is result of: ls -la /drives location

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 12:31 PM

gparted can see hhd and it spins up.

not sure about this chown command if "no such file or directory"?

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 12:36 PM

Im afraid i've to go for a time. back later. thankyou BWuserx

BW-userx · 02-05-2020, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by redcogs

user@debian:~$ ls -la /drives location
ls: cannot access '/drives': No such file or directory
ls: cannot access 'location': No such file or directory
user@debian:~$

Above is result of: ls -la /drives location

that is not a literal, it is notation .. it is to notate your actual location of the drives mount point.

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 03:09 PM

so a mount point doesn't exist?

BW-userx · 02-05-2020, 03:29 PM

I got a laptop. whenever I put a hdd into it I mount it. Gparted will show all hdd connected to a system/
open a terminal.

Code:

lsblk

to see your drives.
ie

Code:

$ lsblk
NAME        MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda           8:0    0   1.8T  0 disk 
├─sda1        8:1    0   529M  0 part 
├─sda2        8:2    0   100M  0 part 
├─sda3        8:3    0    16M  0 part 
├─sda4        8:4    0 537.2G  0 part /media/win10
└─sda5        8:5    0   1.3T  0 part /media/stores
mmcblk0     179:0    0  59.5G  0 disk 
└─mmcblk0p1 179:1    0  59.5G  0 part /run/media/userx/SDCardEXT4
nvme0n1     259:0    0   1.9T  0 disk 
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1    0     1M  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2    0    35G  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3    0    75G  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4    0     3G  0 part 
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5    0    95M  0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p6 259:6    0  37.3G  0 part /
├─nvme0n1p7 259:7    0  69.9G  0 part /home
└─nvme0n1p8 259:8    0   1.7T  0 part /media/data

you'll see something similar like that only pertaining to your system.
find the drive in question. ie /dev/sdb1
now mount it.

Code:

sudo mount -t auto -o rw /dev/sdb1 /mnt

where in this example /dev/sdb1 is just that, an example.
now check it

Code:

ls -la /mnt

copy paste back any errors or what you deem important.
if you cannot figure out what is your source to mount it to /mnt then just post back results of lsblk

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 04:32 PM

thanks. here:

user@debian:~$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 111.8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 1.9G 0 part [SWAP]
└─sda2 8:2 0 110G 0 part /
sdb 8:16 0 465.8G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 462G 0 part /media/user/8ea4c4de-8459-46f0-b0df-52485cd22e1
├─sdb2 8:18 0 1K 0 part
└─sdb5 8:21 0 3.8G 0 part

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 04:34 PM

you are helpful thanks
:-)

BW-userx · 02-05-2020, 05:31 PM

I do not know much aobut S.M.A.R.T for hdds
smartctl -H /dev/sda

https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/li...r-hard-drives/
post output for

Code:

fdisk -l

also the drive HAS to be Unmounted to format it. if you got gparted open right click on it and look for unmount in the drop down list then select that. if it is there/

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 05:49 PM

fdisk l = "command not found" :-(

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 05:51 PM

user@debian:~$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
user@debian:~$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
user@debian:~$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
user@debian:~$

redcogs · 02-05-2020, 05:53 PM

would using a different hdd be an easier solution BW userx? i do have another somewhere..

yancek · 02-05-2020, 05:58 PM

The fdisk command needs to be run as root user. Not sure if Debian uses sudo, don't think so. In the terminal do su then enter the root password you created ruing/after install and then fdisk.