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zizuno

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Registered: 2010-11-18

Posts: 5

Permission denied

Before I get yelled at or trolled, I have already tried the base methods to fix this. Long story short, I am trying to copy a file on my desktop to a HDD in my tower. I used to run ubuntu on this computer but that shouldn't matter since it is formatted to NFTS and my arch partition is ext4. I can mount the HDD just fine, but cannot copy files to it. I have changed the owner of the HDD, set chmod to 777, tried graphically and shell moving the file.

Error opening file '/media/7646FA3A4AD3318A/RockMeltSetup.exe': Permission denied

I get that error through GUI and

cp: cannot create regular file `/media/7646FA3A4AD3318A/RockMeltSetup.exe': Permission denied

in shell.  In ubuntu moving files to it worked just fine. Any help?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,768

Re: Permission denied

Are you using NTFS-3G? , or are are you using Arch NTFS support as it comes out of the box?  Arch does not support mounting NTFS volumes for write without NTFS-3G.

You can verify this by looking at the output of mount

Last edited by ewaller (2010-11-18 04:44:04)

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zizuno

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Registered: 2010-11-18

Posts: 5

Re: Permission denied

Are you using NTFS-3G? , or are are you using Arch NTFS support as it comes out of the box?  Arch does not support mounting NTFS volumes for write without NTFS-3G.

You can verify this by looking at the output of mount

Thanks a lot. I did not know that.