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moheganer2
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i recently installed mint and like it very much.I have an external hard drive that i keep media files on from windows.i can read them and play them on amorok and mplayer but cant write them or delete them.I am not the owner dont have permission.Is there a way to change this? Who is the owner?Any help would be appreciated or a place to get help.
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Husse
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moheganer2
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external hard drive
the hd is ntfs 60gb-has media files- listed as disk on the desktop-can read and play the files-in /media/disk file-cant write or delete files- do not have permission
Re: external hard drive
NTFS is a undocumented + closed-source Microsoft technology. I suggest you use Linux-native file systems instead? e.g. Ext3?moheganer2 wrote:the hd is ntfs 60gb
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Husse
You got scorp123's auto reply 
He does not like M$
But he is right.
If you can't change from ntfs we must fix the problem
Take a look in /etc/fstab
If your external drive is listed there in ANY way mintDisk will not mount it.
If so back up fstab (sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak1)
and then open it and delete the entry for this disk (but nothing else) - you need sudo to do that.
Now it should be mounted r/w - if not post back and we'll dig deeper
He does not like M$
But he is right.
If you can't change from ntfs we must fix the problem
Take a look in /etc/fstab
If your external drive is listed there in ANY way mintDisk will not mount it.
If so back up fstab (sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak1)
and then open it and delete the entry for this disk (but nothing else) - you need sudo to do that.
Now it should be mounted r/w - if not post back and we'll dig deeper
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moheganer2
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- Joined: Thu Jul 05, 2007 12:04 pm
thanks to those who replied to my question. I reinstalled Mint and somehow established myself as owner instead of root.In any case, ican now read, write, and delete anything in external hd even though they are ntfs.I have tried 6 or 7 distros and have never had this happen or have anyone been able to get this result. A miracle!
This is an Ubuntu based problem. In reviews of Ubuntu the issue of not being able to have read/write access to external drives is an issue. It is hit and miss. I have an external drive that when mounted on my home laptop I have write permissions and at work when I mount my work laptop I do not have write permissions.
I have never had this problem with PCLinuxOS or other non-ubuntu distros.
I have never had this problem with PCLinuxOS or other non-ubuntu distros.
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Husse