Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:52:58 +0530
Divick Kishore <divick.kishore@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>     I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am
> able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser
> privileges. Running mount command shows the following:
> 
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01)
> 
> But when I try to access I see the following:
> 
> $: ls /mnt/maxtor/
> ls: cannot open directory /mnt/maxtor/: Permission denied

What does 'ls -l /mnt/maxtor' show?

> I tried changing the owner but I see the following:
> 
> $:sudo chown divkis01 /mnt/maxtor/
> chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/maxtor/': Read-only file system

Well, it's apparently mounted read-only.  What does 'mount | grep
maxtor' show?  What is the exact command you're using to mount the disk?

Celejar
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