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#1 2009-11-24 17:08:08

ask87
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From: India
Registered: 2009-09-21
Posts: 6

External HDD

I bought an external HDD (Free Agent Go - 500 Gb). I created a mount point /media/disk (with RW permissions for all users) and added the line

/dev/sdc1   /media/disk    noauto,users,umask=000   0  0

to my /etc/fstab.


But still I am not able to create a folder, it throws an error 'Operation Failed' and it says I don't have the permission.
Can somebody please help me out, I tried all that I could.

PS: Sorry if this question has already been answered, I couldn't find it anywhere. wink

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#2 2009-11-24 17:14:57

fsckd
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Registered: 2009-06-15
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Re: External HDD

You need to set permissions on the root of your external drive, not the mount point.


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#3 2009-11-24 17:18:20

ask87
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From: India
Registered: 2009-09-21
Posts: 6

Re: External HDD

Sorry I don't get what you mean by 'setting permission to root of the external hdd'. Could you please elaborate more on that.

Thanks for prompt reply

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#4 2009-11-24 17:22:49

perbh
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From: Republic of Texas
Registered: 2005-03-04
Posts: 765

Re: External HDD

Your fstab-entry is _wrong_ anyway! The 3rd (and missing) entry has to be 'ntfs-3g'
In addition, the mount-options should also have 'uid=0,gid=0,locale=en_US.utf8'

Mounting it on /media like that - I'm not quite sure if it will negatively interact with the automounts (since I never use automounts myself)
Personally I have a /usb directory that I mount it too - but each to his or her own ...

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#5 2009-11-24 17:42:11

ask87
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From: India
Registered: 2009-09-21
Posts: 6

Re: External HDD

Oh ya, I am sorry I had put the 3rd parameter as ntfs. Actually I didn't have a support for ntfs-3g, thats why. Now I have installed ntfs-3g and its working.

Thanks a lot for the help perbh & fsckd

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