Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Mount iomegs 1tb external HD

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Friday 06 March 2009 17:21:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> Paul Stear wrote:
>> > On Friday 06 March 2009 16:43:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> >> If you're on KDE3, simply right-click on it's icon after you plug it it.
>> >>   You'll find permissions and mount options there.  The important thing
>> >> is to enable the option "mount as user".
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> > When I switch the external drive on I get a screen "Medium type:
>> > Unmounted Removable Medium
>> > What do you want to do?
>> > The 2 options are open in new window or Do nothing.
>> > If I say open in new window I can see the drive but the permissions are
>> > read only.
>> > If I say do nothing then right click the icon on the desktop I only have
>> > the following options:-
>> > open
>> > copy
>> > open with
>> > Safely remove
>> > Open medium system folder
>> > Properties
>>
>> "Properties".
>
> Thanks for the replies, sorry I haven't been back in touch for a few days.
> If I click Properties and select the Permissions tab the User is -me(my user
> name), Group is root. On the access Permissions part the Owner is set to "Can
> View Contents".
> If I change this to "Can View & Modify Content" and click "OK" I get an error
> message "Could not change permissions for /media/lomega HDD".
> I am on kde3.10.
> Their must be a way of defining default permissions for anything plugged into
> the usb port.
> Can anyone help with this issue please.
> Thanks
> Paul

I don't know if it's still true but for a long time the older NTFS
file system stuff in the kernel came up read-only by default. Have you
turned on ability to write in your kernel config?

- Mark