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On Friday 06 March 2009 13:36:55 Mark Haney wrote: |
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> Paul Stear wrote: |
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> > I have just bought a ionega 1 tb external hard disc but can not write to |
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> > it. It is automatically mounted to media:/sdf1 but when I check the |
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> > permissions they are for mu user name, group root, owner "can view |
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> > Contents". Group and others "forbidden". I have tried as user and root to |
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> > change permissions but I just get an error message saying "Could not |
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> > change permissions |
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> > for /media/iomega/HDD/System Volume Information. The disc is |
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> > pre-formatted with NTFS and I will want to be able to connect it to |
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> > windows some times. Thanks for any help |
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> > Paul |
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> Just to clarify, are you mounting the fs with ntfs3g? Have you tried |
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> unmounting and remounting manually? |
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Thanks all for the responses. |
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I am running ntfs3g on this machine. HAL is doing the mounting to |
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system:/media. |
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All I want is to be able to switch on the external drive, which then shows up |
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on the desktop automatically and the copy files to it. |
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I just thought all of this happened automatically these days, so I feel as if |
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I have something not set up correctly or missing from my amd64 kde system. |
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Paul |
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