Fully granting access for reading and writing in HFS external drive

Meowtopia · 2019-01-01 01:11:01

Hello, I have spent much time on this and cannot seem to get it right. I have mounted the drive with only select folders having rw permissions and others with only read only that I am unable to open. I have found no correlation between folders that are read/write or read only, except the folders inside the root of the ext. hard drive are all rw. I have tried many solutions, and I also have hfsprogs and hfsutils. I have tried

Mounting and remounting and remaking the mount point

 sudo umount /run/media/rossy/"Rossy's Time Capsule"/ 
sudo rmdir /run/media/rossy/"Rossy's Time Capsule"/
sudo mkdir /run/media/rossy/"Rossy's Time Capsule"/
sudo mount -t hfsplus -o force,rw /dev/sdb2 /run/media/rossy/"Rossy's Time Capsule"/

All of these code snippets have ran successfully but still the I do not have full access to the drive

I have tried this

 
sudo fsck.hfsplus -f /dev/sdb2

I have tried disabling journaling on the ext hard drive with this c file

 [rossy@darf ~]$ cd Downloads
[rossy@darf Downloads]$ gcc /home/rossy/Downloads/W8pfgHRe.c -o W8pfgHRe
[rossy@darf Downloads]$ sudo ./a.out /dev/sdb2
[sudo] password for rossy: 
attributes = 0x80000100
kHFSVolumeJournaledBit not currently set in the volume attributes field.
journal has been disabled.

It returns this of course after I had initially run it.
Every single folder inside the root I have access for rw, but the folders inside the folders not in the root of the ext. hard drive I do not have access to all. Would I have to mess with the fstab file? I tried that before and screwed up my system.

Here is the lsblk

NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                                   
├─sda1
│    vfat         1B02-31E8                             299.1M     0% /boot/efi
├─sda2
│    ext4         ab1452e0-1aea-4892-9e43-cf14ebd886a7  183.9G     8% /
└─sda3
     swap         ef6ec4b8-02ba-49bb-80cf-cd1f3d850ce8                [SWAP]
sdb                                                                   
├─sdb1
│    vfat   EFI   67E3-17ED                                           
└─sdb2
     hfsplu Rossy's Time Capsule
                  26bdf274-47db-3595-a526-b898ea469c4a  670.7G    64% /run/media
sr0

Trilby · 2019-01-01 01:31:22

Meowtopia wrote:

... I do not have access to all ...

If this is the actual problem, elaborate on this. Specifically, what does it mean to not have access to them? What commands are failing and with what error messages? What is the output of `ls -l` on files/directories you do/do not have "access" to?

Meowtopia · 2019-01-01 03:24:40

Sorry for the late response. All of the commands run successfully with no errors. for the ls-l on my ext hard drive

in root where I have permissions to change the things inside the folder video library, not including the things inside the folder. Here is the ls-l

drwxr-xr-x 1  503 root         6 Jun 11  2018  Books
drwxr-xr-x 1  503 root        10 Dec 29 09:49 'Etc. Files and Stuff'
drwxr-xr-x 1  503 root         7 Dec  1 22:59  Games
drwxr-xr-x 1  503 root         9 Jun  6  2018 'Music Library'
drwxr-xr-x 1  503 root        12 Aug  5 21:10  Pics
-rw-r--r-- 1  503   20 636479780 Nov 22 15:13 'slaughterhouse five 692p.mp4'
drwxr-xr-x 1  503 root         4 Dec 29 09:52  Software
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    115716 May 10  2015  tmbootpicker.efi
drwxrwxrwx 1  503 root        25 Jun 17  2018 'Video Library'

Here is the folder Video Library which I can edit inside but not the child (correct term?) directories
I could only open DVD Rips Gravity Falls Movies Music Videos and South Park and could only read the files. All others have the little X by the folder icon and when I try to open them it says "error opening directory .... : Permission Denied"

drwx------ 1 503 root 17 Jan  5  2018 'American Dad!'
drwx------ 1 503 root 13 Jan  5  2018  Archer
drwx------ 1 503 root 13 May 24  2018  ATWFAJ
drwx------ 1 503 root 11 Dec 28  2017 "Bob's Burgers"
drwx------ 1 503 root  8 Jan  5  2018 'Courage the Cowardly Dog'
drwx------ 1 503 root 11 Jan  5  2018 "Dexter's Lab"
drwx------ 1 503 root 65 Jun 17  2018 'DISNEY MOVIE COLLECTION'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root 26 Jun  8  2018 'DVDS Rips'
drwx------ 1 503 root  9 Jan  5  2018 'Ed, Edd, n Eddy'
drwx------ 1 503 root 11 Dec 28  2017  Futurama
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  6 Dec 28  2017 'Gravity Falls'
-rw-r--r-- 1 503 root  0 Dec 28  2017 'Icon'$'\r'
drwx------ 1 503 root  8 Jan  5  2018 'King of the Hill'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  5 Jan  7  2018 'Looney Tunes'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root 15 Dec 26 21:12  Movies
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root 24 Dec 28  2017 'Music Videos'
drwx------ 1 503 root  9 Jun 13  2018 'PixarDisney Movie Collection'
drwx------ 1 503 root 16 Jun 10  2018 'Pixar Movie Collection'
drwx------ 1 503 root 14 Jan  5  2018 'Simpsons Season 1-10'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  5 Dec 28  2017 'South Park '
drwx------ 1 503 root  6 Jan  5  2018 'Sword Art Online '
drwx------ 1 503 root 30 Jun  9  2018 'The Three Stooges'

ls -l on other directories that I have mixed access to for read only or being able to open ( not able to write these directories)
Books

drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root 8 Jun 11  2018 Books
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root 7 Jun 11  2018 Comics
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root 4 Jun 11  2018 Magazines

Etc Files

drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  5 Dec 29 09:49  Ftc
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  8 Jun  7  2018 'Minecroft Mods'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  3 Jun  7  2018 'Mum Phone'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  3 Aug  9 11:19 'Nano backup 8:9'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root 27 Dec 28  2017 'Stanley Donwood Artwork'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  6 May 12  2018 'Unity Assets and jizz'
drwxr-xr-x 1 503 root  5 Dec 28  2017  VLC

After that they are all basically the same in formula. If you could help me that would be greatly appreciated!
Something with the colorcoding, stuff that was read only was blue, whereas my video library was purple which was rw, but not including child directories.

Trilby · 2019-01-01 04:00:59

Meowtopia wrote:

All of the commands run successfully with no errors.

That's clearly not the case, or you would not be posting here for help.

But it looks like it's simply a matter of permissions. Most of those directories are 503:root ownership and the ones you claim to have problems with are only rw for the owner, those you can access are world rw'able, and those that you can only read are read-only for world.

So everything is as it should be. If you want to change permissions on certain files or directories, do so with chmod.

Meowtopia · 2019-01-01 07:08:08

Wow thanks man chmod is amazing also happy new year.

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#1 2019-01-01 01:11:01

Fully granting access for reading and writing in HFS external drive

#2 2019-01-01 01:31:22

Re: Fully granting access for reading and writing in HFS external drive

#3 2019-01-01 03:24:40

Re: Fully granting access for reading and writing in HFS external drive

#4 2019-01-01 04:00:59

Re: Fully granting access for reading and writing in HFS external drive

#5 2019-01-01 07:08:08

Re: Fully granting access for reading and writing in HFS external drive

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