Second Drive Read Only

[Not Tech Savvy]

I think I had it for a moment. There were two drives labelled "Data" showing up and one of them had something in the Permissions tab of the properties dialogue box. I opened Computer and saw both of them in the column on the left with the eject buttons next to them. I ejected the first one, then the remaining one switched to showing "The permissions of Data could not be determined" under properties. So I tried ejecting that one too and used the

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sudo mount -a

again to bring it back. It came back with no permissions though. Properties also says that 50Gb of the drive have been used and the contents of the disk are unreadable.

[catweazel]

I think I had it for a moment. There were two drives labelled "Data" showing up and one of them had something in the Permissions tab of the properties dialogue box. I opened Computer and saw both of them in the column on the left with the eject buttons next to them. I ejected the first one, then the remaining one switched to showing "The permissions of Data could not be determined" under properties. So I tried ejecting that one too and used the

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sudo mount -a

again to bring it back. It came back with no permissions though. Properties also says that 50Gb of the drive have been used and the contents of the disk are unreadable.

Please post the output of cat /etc/fstab. I need to see what's in there now. Also, make sure you formatted the partition as ext4 in gparted.

[Not Tech Savvy]

I chose ext4 in Gparted.

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
/dev/mapper/mint--vg-root /               ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /boot was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
UUID=f6b8e4a6-99a4-44cb-858e-98d909726c49 /boot           ext4    defaults        0       2
# /boot/efi was on /dev/sdb1 during installation
UUID=2A3B-B824  /boot/efi       vfat    umask=0077      0       1
/dev/mapper/mint--vg-swap_1 none            swap    sw              0       0
UUID=9fcd1e08-f195-43d6-8b22-a480c02e848f    /media/owner/Data    ext4    errors=remount-ro 0       2

[catweazel]

I chose ext4 in Gparted.

This should be working. Can you go into gparted and select the HDD. Take a screen shot and upload it here: https://imgbb.com/

Post the link that imgbb gives you, please.

[Not Tech Savvy]

Gparted screenshot- https://ibb.co/hnxYYK

Screenshots of the properties dialogue box for Data- https://ibb.co/nsuK7e and https://ibb.co/nJmhSe

[catweazel]

Gparted screenshot- https://ibb.co/hnxYYK

Screenshots of the properties dialogue box for Data- https://ibb.co/nsuK7e and https://ibb.co/nJmhSe

Ok, they look normal. Try this:

sudo chown $USER:$USER /media/$USER/Data

[Not Tech Savvy]

No response in the terminal, but it has just let me save something to Data.

Is that what was supposed to happen?

[catweazel]

No response in the terminal, but it has just let me save something to Data.

Is that what was supposed to happen?

Yes. It should now be ok. I think you may have missed that step earlier.

Cheers.

[Not Tech Savvy]

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

[catweazel]

Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

It was my pleasure, and you're very much welcome.

[MintyUser]

Ok, if you still have Windowes, start it up and follow this link to disable fast startup, then shutdown completely: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-disa ... st-startup

Thank you, disabling Windows 10 Fast Startup solved my drives being Read Only.

• Start

• Control Panel

• Power Options

• Choose what the power buttons do

• Change settings that are currently unavailable

• Turn on fast startup (recommended) UNCHECK

• Save changes.