On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Paul Stear <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday 09 March 2009 11:34:13 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:12 AM, Paul Stear <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Friday 06 March 2009 17:21:17 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> Paul Stear wrote: >> >> > On Friday 06 March 2009 16:43:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> >> If you're on KDE3, simply right-click on it's icon after you plug it >> >> >> it. You'll find permissions and mount options there. The important >> >> >> thing is to enable the option "mount as user". >> >> > >> >> > Hi, >> >> > When I switch the external drive on I get a screen "Medium type: >> >> > Unmounted Removable Medium >> >> > What do you want to do? >> >> > The 2 options are open in new window or Do nothing. >> >> > If I say open in new window I can see the drive but the permissions >> >> > are read only. >> >> > If I say do nothing then right click the icon on the desktop I only >> >> > have the following options:- >> >> > open >> >> > copy >> >> > open with >> >> > Safely remove >> >> > Open medium system folder >> >> > Properties >> >> >> >> "Properties". >> > >> > Thanks for the replies, sorry I haven't been back in touch for a few >> > days. If I click Properties and select the Permissions tab the User is >> > -me(my user name), Group is root. On the access Permissions part the >> > Owner is set to "Can View Contents". >> > If I change this to "Can View & Modify Content" and click "OK" I get an >> > error message "Could not change permissions for /media/lomega HDD". >> > I am on kde3.10. >> > Their must be a way of defining default permissions for anything plugged >> > into the usb port. >> > Can anyone help with this issue please. >> > Thanks >> > Paul >> >> I don't know if it's still true but for a long time the older NTFS >> file system stuff in the kernel came up read-only by default. Have you >> turned on ability to write in your kernel config? >> >> - Mark > > Thanks Mark, > I have just checked the kernel and write is turned on. > Any other ideas? > Paul
I was wondering last night whether this is an issue with your specific machine or Linux in general? You may not be willing to run the experiment but my next step personally would be to do backups on the drive and then to see whether a gparted CD could resize a partition. If it can then you have an existence proof. If it doesn't then I'd look to the folks that manage that software for a better answer. Keep in mind that if gparted can resize the partition then the next time you use the drive on your windows machine it's likely going to want to run extensive tests to make sure nothing has gone wrong which will take time. (Or does on my machine.) - Mark
