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Sbloge

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Registered: 2021-01-20

Posts: 4

Newly mounted drive is read only.

I have managed to mount 1 of my hard-drives correctly and it works both read and write. But my second hard-drive i mounted the same way is read only for some reason i cant figure out.

Mount produces this:

...
/dev/sdd1 on /games type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /data type ext4 (rw,relatime)
...

/etc/fstab/ looks like this:

# Static information about the filesystems.
# See fstab(5) for details.

# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/nvme0n1p3
UUID=990cfe8b-797f-41eb-989b-372bae7417d1	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,stripe=32	0 1

# /dev/nvme0n1p2
UUID=98f41918-8987-4525-a9cd-8eabd44f1b54	none      	swap      	defaults  	0 0

/dev/sda1	/data	ext4	rw,defaults	0	0

/dev/sdd1	/games	ext4	rw,defaults	0	0

I really can't figure out what im doing wrong here, Both show up in dolphin but only sdd1 is writable.

Dying_Watchdogs

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Registered: 2021-11-22

Posts: 39

Re: Newly mounted drive is read only.

Probably a permissions issue.

Ext4 needs permission flags for users to write to it. The non-terminal way: Open your file manager as root, navigate to the device, right click -->  properties... --> permissions, change read/write permissions as you wish.

Last edited by Dying_Watchdogs (2021-12-03 20:11:30)

Sandrino

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Registered: 2021-09-24

Posts: 45

Re: Newly mounted drive is read only.

Dolphin can't be opened as root so you have to change the permissions via terminal.

sudo chown user:group /mountpoint

user>your username
group>your usergroup
mountpoint>path where the disk is mounted

Last edited by Sandrino (2021-12-05 23:33:33)