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uzi304

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From: New Jersey, USA

Registered: 2009-06-16

Posts: 29

Can't change the ownership of a drive after I mount it

Ok so I recently installed Arch on the laptop given to me by my college and it originally came as one hard drive partitioned into two. One was for the operating system which is Windows 7 and data and the other was for storage. I took space from the storage and made another partition for Arch. Nevertheless, I was able to mount the partition with Windows 7 on it but when I mounted the second partition this message came up and tried to change the ownership of it:

mount: warning: /media/Ddrive/ seems to be mounted read-only.

chown: changing ownership of `/media/Ddrive/': Read-only file system

I also tried to mount it with mount -o rw but that didn't help either. Any information will be appreciated.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Can't change the ownership of a drive after I mount it

Have you tried mounting it under /mnt instead of /media?

Zanaffar

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Registered: 2010-10-14

Posts: 3

Re: Can't change the ownership of a drive after I mount it

From the sounds of things if that 2nd partition is ntfs you may need to install the ntfs-3g driver the in kernel ntfs driver tends to only allow read-only mounting.

More info about it can be found here
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G

Mr.Elendig

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From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: Can't change the ownership of a drive after I mount it

1. the ntfs driver is read only
2. ntfs does not support posix permissions, so you have to set the permission at mount time.

Install ntfs-3g and read ntfs-3g(8), take special notice of uid,gid,fmask,dmask,umask

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