Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mount iomegs 1tb external HD
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:51:30
Message-Id: 49B51ED7.8010602@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mount iomegs 1tb external HD by Paul Stear
1 Paul Stear wrote:
2 > On Monday 09 March 2009 11:34:13 Mark Knecht wrote:
3 >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >>> On Friday 06 March 2009 17:21:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
5 >>>> Paul Stear wrote:
6 >>>>> On Friday 06 March 2009 16:43:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
7 >>>>>> If you're on KDE3, simply right-click on it's icon after you plug it
8 >>>>>> it. You'll find permissions and mount options there. The important
9 >>>>>> thing is to enable the option "mount as user".
10 >>>>> Hi,
11 >>>>> When I switch the external drive on I get a screen "Medium type:
12 >>>>> Unmounted Removable Medium
13 >>>>> What do you want to do?
14 >>>>> The 2 options are open in new window or Do nothing.
15 >>>>> If I say open in new window I can see the drive but the permissions
16 >>>>> are read only.
17 >>>>> If I say do nothing then right click the icon on the desktop I only
18 >>>>> have the following options:-
19 >>>>> open
20 >>>>> copy
21 >>>>> open with
22 >>>>> Safely remove
23 >>>>> Open medium system folder
24 >>>>> Properties
25 >>>> "Properties".
26 >>> Thanks for the replies, sorry I haven't been back in touch for a few
27 >>> days. If I click Properties and select the Permissions tab the User is
28 >>> -me(my user name), Group is root. On the access Permissions part the
29 >>> Owner is set to "Can View Contents".
30 >>> If I change this to "Can View & Modify Content" and click "OK" I get an
31 >>> error message "Could not change permissions for /media/lomega HDD".
32 >>> I am on kde3.10.
33 >>> Their must be a way of defining default permissions for anything plugged
34 >>> into the usb port.
35 >>> Can anyone help with this issue please.
36 >>> Thanks
37 >>> Paul
38 >> I don't know if it's still true but for a long time the older NTFS
39 >> file system stuff in the kernel came up read-only by default. Have you
40 >> turned on ability to write in your kernel config?
41 >>
42 >> - Mark
43 >
44 > Thanks Mark,
45 > I have just checked the kernel and write is turned on.
46 > Any other ideas?
47 > Paul
48 >
49
50 I don't recall seeing whether or not you could unmount the drive
51 manually. I'd like to see what happens if you can do that and try to
52 mount it with samba. Just for fun.
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