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rg666

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Registered: 2015-10-02

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Unable to copy a file to an external drive

I'm facing a strange problem of being unable to copy-paste  a certain file to my external HDD.
Error displayed:- Could not write to run/media/(my_hostname)/(external HDD's name)/(file).zip

Even tried copying with terminal, as root, still got the message Cannot create regular file: (path/file) : Permission Denied.

Please help me out someone?

Last edited by rg666 (2015-10-03 06:30:34)

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: Unable to copy a file to an external drive

Can you copy other files to that directory? What are the permissions on the target directory and the source file? Filesystems and mount options, ls -l, lsattr, getfacl?

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rg666

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Registered: 2015-10-02

Posts: 10

Re: Unable to copy a file to an external drive

Can you copy other files to that directory? What are the permissions on the target directory and the source file? Filesystems and mount options, ls -l, lsattr, getfacl?

No, untill yesterday everything was fine. but I guess I forgot to un-mount my external HDD, because I was downloading something and had set my pc to shutdown at a time, using the terminal.

I even tried changing the ext. hdd permissions, using chmod to 777, and it executed, but even then, I am unable to copy file to my external HDD, although, there's not a read problem from the external HDD problem encountered.

Here is the entry in the mount-log:-

    /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/(username)/(ext. hdd name) type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0177,dmask=077,nls=utf8,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1,uhelper=udisks2)

Last edited by rg666 (2015-10-03 07:08:17)

jasonwryan

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Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: Unable to copy a file to an external drive

Not a Sysadmin issue, moving to NC...

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