Can't write to external 160 gigs usb hard drive
I have an external 160 gigs usb hard drive, and I can't write to
it. With 'tail -f /var/log/kern.log' I discovered that it is attached
to /dev/sde1
Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device found at 9
Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Vendor: WDC WD16 Model: 00BB-00GUC0 Rev: 0 0
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB)
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: sde1
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sde at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
My /etc/fstab is next
cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdi1 /media/usbdisk auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sde1 /media/usbdisk1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
And I can't write to /media/usbdisk1 as user, nor as root. I also
noticed that after (dis)connecting the external hard disk the permissions
for /media/usbdisk1 change automatically:
ls -l /media
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-30 17:30 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-08-26 18:30 Nuevo vol
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-08-17 19:14 usbdisk
drwx------ 1 root root 4096 2005-08-17 14:30 usbdisk1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-09-27 12:54 usbdisk-1
and after umounting
ls -l /media
total 28
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-30 17:30 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-08-26 18:30 Nuevo vol
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-08-17 19:14 usbdisk
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-11-05 23:19 usbdisk1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-09-27 12:54 usbdisk-1
same happens if I now connect, the permissions go back to 0700
What is going wrong? (I also mounted it manually mount -t ntfs -w to
make sure, but still nothing)
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