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ronandi

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From: US

Registered: 2008-04-26

Posts: 65

cannot chmod second HDD

I cannot change the permissions on my /media/Local Disk drive. Ive tried using chmod 777 as root and nothing happens! What do I do......

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ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: cannot chmod second HDD

What filesystem is on the disk?  If it is an NTFS or FAT partition don't forget that they do not support permissions.

ronandi

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From: US

Registered: 2008-04-26

Posts: 65

Re: cannot chmod second HDD

What filesystem is on the disk?  If it is an NTFS or FAT partition don't forget that they do not support permissions.

oh....lol... oops... yeah its NTFS... anyway I can make it so that I can create folder on the driver without having to be root then?

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ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: cannot chmod second HDD

you need to mount it using ntfs-3g, eg

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sd?? /media/Local\ Disk

where sd?? is the device node of the disk (i.e. sdb1 etc) or, if its an internal disk try putting something like

/dev/sd?? /media/Local\ Disk ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

in /etc/fstab.

There's also some information in the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support