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Hi all, I am running a version of ubuntu linux on my laptop. I have connected via usb a western digital hard drive. In linux I can access the drive ...
  1. 01-04-2007 #1
    daniel_t
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    External hard disk permissions

    Hi all,

    I am running a version of ubuntu linux on my laptop. I have connected via usb a western digital hard drive. In linux I can access the drive and read files on the drive with no problem, but I get an error message regarding permissions when i try to write to the drive. Can anyone help me or point me in any direction to help me solve this? Im a proper newbie to linux and i understand that almost everything in linux is commands commands and more commands... so a rather more step by step guide would be extremely helpful.
    Thanks to all of you, in advance, who took the time to read/reply to my query.


    Thank you.


    Daniel.
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    What type of filesystem is on the drive? NTFS or FAT? Type
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    mount
    at a command prompt and see if the drive has "ro" in parentheses next to it.
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