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Archie_Enthusiasm

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Registered: 2010-10-23

Posts: 99

USB hard disk: operation not permitted how[SOLVED]

hello guys,

I have a usb hard disk with ntfs filesystem. I formatted the drive in windows. Now I want to backup some files on it. Whenever I try to create a folder in it, it says operation not permitted.

How can I change the permission?

Last edited by Archie_Enthusiasm (2010-12-08 19:22:38)

kfgz

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From: Supraśl, Poland

Registered: 2009-03-02

Posts: 114

Re: USB hard disk: operation not permitted how[SOLVED]

You have to install ntfs-3g because ntfs implementation in kernel supports only reading from NTFS partition.

Last edited by kfgz (2010-12-03 16:11:53)

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: USB hard disk: operation not permitted how[SOLVED]

And make sure they're not mounted as Read-Only in fstab:

/dev/cdrom           /media/cd      iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide    0      0
/dev/dvd               /media/dvd    udf           ro,user,noauto,unhide    0      0

Works better for disc drives, flash drives occasionally. Hard drives... not so much.

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