[solved] No Access to USB Drive

yawns · 2010-07-31 03:06:15

I have a USB harddrive that I'm unable to read or write to. It is automounting when I plug it in (no fstab stuff), and as root I can use it. Per other threads here, I've added myself to the following groups

[mike@robots ~]$ id
uid=1000(mike) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel),91(video),92(audio),93(optical),95(storage),98(power)

and changed my xinitrc so that it looks like this

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
#exec gnome-session
ck-launch-session gnome

after which I logged out and then rebooted.

Properties of the drive

If you need more info please ask.

Last edited by yawns (2010-07-31 06:21:26)

fsckd · 2010-07-31 05:38:45

What filesystem type is the drive? Can you post the output of ls -l in the root of the drive's filesystem?

yawns · 2010-07-31 06:21:07

Thanks for the reply... well, this was kind of dumb of me and it didn't click 'til you replied and I revisited my post. The mount point (/media/{disk_id}) was owned by root and didn't have write permissions for others. So I just chown'd it to me and the storage group.

fsckd · 2010-07-31 06:26:57

np, glad to have been a service one way or another

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#1 2010-07-31 03:06:15

[solved] No Access to USB Drive

#2 2010-07-31 05:38:45

Re: [solved] No Access to USB Drive

#3 2010-07-31 06:21:07

Re: [solved] No Access to USB Drive

#4 2010-07-31 06:26:57

Re: [solved] No Access to USB Drive

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