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zephyrus17

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Registered: 2008-06-15

Posts: 323

Xfce external drive: Permission Denied

Now that I've reformatted, I thought I'd try my hand at Xfce, and see what it's like. Problem is, when I try to mount and access my external, thunar says I can't assess my external, and says "Permission Denied". At least when I used kdemod it still let me read the files. Now it's total lockdown. So far, only gnome has let me access my external

I think there's some problem with my drive's permission/group, since it's using NTFS.

How do I get it to be accessed? Trying a

sudo chmod 777 /media/Arda-2

gives "chmod: changing permissions of `/media/Arda-2': Read-only file system"

and   ls -l /media/ gives

dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 2008-12-24 13:03 Arda-2

I think I just have to change the group to storage or something, but it just won't let me.

sisco311

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From: Romania

Registered: 2008-05-23

Posts: 112

Re: Xfce external drive: Permission Denied

you can set the permissions and owner at mount time:

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdXY /media/mount -o defaults,umask=007,uid=username,gid=group

auto mount:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Thu … me_Manager
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

Last edited by sisco311 (2008-12-26 12:32:42)

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