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