Drive say's "Read Only"

Car Keys · 10-12-2019, 11:56 AM

Brand new user here. I have installed Mint 19.2. I have a system drive 250gb and a 1 TB storage drive. I am moving personal files to this machine via a usb stick/flash drive. I am able to copy and paste files from the flash drive to desk top. That puts them on the 250gb drive. But I want them on the 1TB drive. When I try to move the files to the 1TB drive it say’s it’s a read only. I want to store files on the 1TB drive. Any ideas?

kilgoretrout · 10-12-2019, 12:09 PM

Open a terminal; run the following command:

Code:

lsblk -f

and post the output here. Without this information we'll be playing a lengthy game of twenty questions.

Car Keys · 10-12-2019, 12:19 PM

Here you go. Please see attachment. Thank you

Car Keys · 10-12-2019, 12:22 PM

kirk@kirk-System-Product-Name:~$ lsblk -f
NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT
sda
└─sda1 ntfs System Reserved
1A78BFC778BF9FC5 /mnt/1A78B
nvme0n1
└─nvme0n1p1
ext4 13836830-30d5-4576-a966-ab6d8caa1fc5 /

quickbreakfast · 10-12-2019, 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Car Keys

Brand new user here. I have installed Mint 19.2.

Welcome to the linux world.

Quote:

I want them on the 1TB drive. When I try to move the files to the 1TB drive it say’s it’s a read only.

Check the permissions.

Quote:

I want to store files on the 1TB drive.

Add the 1T drive to your fstab.

And change the ownership of the 1T drive.

Have a read of

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3812...-does-it-work/

Before you do anything, have a copy of a/ your fstab and b/ everything you want to keep so you can reinstall them if something goes wrong.

Captain Brillo · 10-16-2019, 05:31 PM

Go to the 'File System" and find the drive in question. It's probably in /media/<username> or in /run/media/<username>

First way:

Right click, go to properties > permissions and change them from "root" to you, and hit the box that says "Apply Permissions to Enclosed Files"

Second way:

you could use the command line with

Code:

sudo chown -R <username>:<groupname> <partition or directory or filename

Both ways can take time if there are many files.

I still haven't figured out why some disks/partitions are owned by root and others are owned by the user. Perhaps someone else will enlighten us.