| 1 |
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> 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 |
>> >> > |
| 11 |
>> >> > Hi, |
| 12 |
>> >> > When I switch the external drive on I get a screen "Medium type: |
| 13 |
>> >> > Unmounted Removable Medium |
| 14 |
>> >> > What do you want to do? |
| 15 |
>> >> > The 2 options are open in new window or Do nothing. |
| 16 |
>> >> > If I say open in new window I can see the drive but the permissions |
| 17 |
>> >> > are read only. |
| 18 |
>> >> > If I say do nothing then right click the icon on the desktop I only |
| 19 |
>> >> > have the following options:- |
| 20 |
>> >> > open |
| 21 |
>> >> > copy |
| 22 |
>> >> > open with |
| 23 |
>> >> > Safely remove |
| 24 |
>> >> > Open medium system folder |
| 25 |
>> >> > Properties |
| 26 |
>> >> |
| 27 |
>> >> "Properties". |
| 28 |
>> > |
| 29 |
>> > Thanks for the replies, sorry I haven't been back in touch for a few |
| 30 |
>> > days. If I click Properties and select the Permissions tab the User is |
| 31 |
>> > -me(my user name), Group is root. On the access Permissions part the |
| 32 |
>> > Owner is set to "Can View Contents". |
| 33 |
>> > If I change this to "Can View & Modify Content" and click "OK" I get an |
| 34 |
>> > error message "Could not change permissions for /media/lomega HDD". |
| 35 |
>> > I am on kde3.10. |
| 36 |
>> > Their must be a way of defining default permissions for anything plugged |
| 37 |
>> > into the usb port. |
| 38 |
>> > Can anyone help with this issue please. |
| 39 |
>> > Thanks |
| 40 |
>> > Paul |
| 41 |
>> |
| 42 |
>> I don't know if it's still true but for a long time the older NTFS |
| 43 |
>> file system stuff in the kernel came up read-only by default. Have you |
| 44 |
>> turned on ability to write in your kernel config? |
| 45 |
>> |
| 46 |
>> - Mark |
| 47 |
> |
| 48 |
> Thanks Mark, |
| 49 |
> I have just checked the kernel and write is turned on. |
| 50 |
> Any other ideas? |
| 51 |
> Paul |
| 52 |
|
| 53 |
I was wondering last night whether this is an issue with your specific |
| 54 |
machine or Linux in general? You may not be willing to run the |
| 55 |
experiment but my next step personally would be to do backups on the |
| 56 |
drive and then to see whether a gparted CD could resize a partition. |
| 57 |
If it can then you have an existence proof. If it doesn't then I'd |
| 58 |
look to the folks that manage that software for a better answer. Keep |
| 59 |
in mind that if gparted can resize the partition then the next time |
| 60 |
you use the drive on your windows machine it's likely going to want to |
| 61 |
run extensive tests to make sure nothing has gone wrong which will |
| 62 |
take time. (Or does on my machine.) |
| 63 |
|
| 64 |
- Mark |
Archives