Paul Stear wrote: > I have just bought a ionega 1 tb external hard disc but can not write to it. > It is automatically mounted to media:/sdf1 but when I check the permissions > they are for mu user name, group root, owner "can view Contents". Group and > others "forbidden". I have tried as user and root to change permissions but I > just get an error message saying "Could not change permissions > for /media/iomega/HDD/System Volume Information. The disc is pre-formatted > with NTFS and I will want to be able to connect it to windows some times. > Thanks for any help > Paul
Just to clarify, are you mounting the fs with ntfs3g? Have you tried unmounting and remounting manually? -- Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione quadraturae circuli Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
