Partition & Read Only [Solved]

[SLinovitz]

Hello.

I doubt this problem is unique, even tried solving it by searching the forums, but so far haven't found a solution.

I run Mint 9 Isadora on my laptop (/dev/sda3, fs=ext4) and created an additional partition for storage on the same hard drive (/dev/sda4, fs=ext4) using GParted installed via the Software Manager.

Everything was successful except I'm only able to mount the new partition (sda4) as read only. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

[oobetimer]

Hello.

I doubt this problem is unique, even tried solving it by searching the forums, but so far haven't found a solution.

I run Mint 9 Isadora on my laptop (/dev/sda3, fs=ext4) and created an additional partition for storage on the same hard drive (/dev/sda4, fs=ext4) using GParted installed via the Software Manager.

Everything was successful except I'm only able to mount the new partition (sda4) as read only. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Make a mount-point and add it to the /etc/fstab

Terminal commands

sudo mkdir /mnt/partition

gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

....add the line like this

/dev/sda4 /mnt/partition ext4 defaults 0 0

.....save and quit

sudo mount -a

sudo chown -R your_username: /mnt/partition

[SLinovitz]

@oobetimer
That worked. Problem solved. Thanks for the fast reply.