| 1 |
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
| 2 |
> I have just bought a ionega 1 tb external hard disc but can not write to it. |
| 3 |
> It is automatically mounted to media:/sdf1 but when I check the permissions |
| 4 |
> they are for mu user name, group root, owner "can view Contents". Group and |
| 5 |
> others "forbidden". I have tried as user and root to change permissions but I |
| 6 |
> just get an error message saying "Could not change permissions |
| 7 |
> for /media/iomega/HDD/System Volume Information. The disc is pre-formatted |
| 8 |
> with NTFS and I will want to be able to connect it to windows some times. |
| 9 |
> Thanks for any help |
| 10 |
> Paul |
| 11 |
|
| 12 |
If you want to then you can go the other way which is to install an |
| 13 |
ext3 driver in Windows and format the drive as ext2 or ext3. I use it |
| 14 |
and it works for me although I haven't tried it on an external drive. |
| 15 |
|
| 16 |
http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html |
| 17 |
|
| 18 |
Cheers, |
| 19 |
Mark |
Archives