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rurouni_hou_ou
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 Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 3:16 pm Post subject: Mounting external drives for read/write |
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I am able to mount my external HDD in read only mode, but at the moment I can't seem to mount it in read/write mode for my user.
So far, my /etc/fstab entry looks like:
| Code: | | /dev/sdb1 /media/connor/usbdrive auto user,auto,async,exec 0 0 |
I have tried making /media/connor owned by that user using chmod connor:connor /media/connor. But still this fails. Also, the service localmount reports 'filesystem 'auto' not found'. I also changed the filesystem to fat32 in my fstab. But still reported 'filesystem 'fat32' not found'. |
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steveL
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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You probably want 'users' not 'user'; and istr 'vfat'.
First one means any user in 'disk' group can unmount, unless you have some kludge in-between. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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rurouni_hou_ou,
Don't use auto for the filesystem type if you value your data. Its OK on read only media,
Auto tells mount to guess the filesystem. Most times it gets it right but your data is toast when it doesn't.
As a read only mount works I suspect that the filesystem is ntfs and you are using the kernel ntfs driver.
Despite the kernel option for ntfs write support, its mostly not there.
Use FUSE and ntfs-3g instead.
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