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Varreon

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Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 95

[SOLVED] Mounting external(usb) ntfs volume

I just purchased a 1tb drive as backup, and have it formatted as ntfs(I need to use it for windows machines as well). It is a sata hard drive, but that shouldn't matter as the usb adapter handles that.

I am able to mount it successfully, but any attempts to write to the mount point fail. I am logged in as root.

I mounted the device as follows: mount /dev/sdc1 /media/sata
But when I attempt: touch /media/sata/test

I get the following error: 'touch: cannot touch 'test': permission denied'

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by Varreon (2009-06-12 04:54:34)

mits

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From: Bucharest/Romania

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 129

Re: [SOLVED] Mounting external(usb) ntfs volume

I have a usb external hard with windows installed and another xfs partition and no problem.
If you use hal take a look here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … ite_access.

Varreon

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Registered: 2008-07-03

Posts: 95

Re: [SOLVED] Mounting external(usb) ntfs volume

Thanks, I ended up using the ntfs-3g driver mentioned in that site. After adding an entry to fstab and installing the app, I was able to write to my ntfs drive.