> 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?
It also shows:
ls: cannot open directory /mnt/maxtor/: Permission denied
> 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?
$: mount | grep maxtor
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01)
I had posted that earlier as well. MY fstab looks something like this:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/maxtor ntfs rw,user,noauto 0 0
and then I just do mount /mnt/maxtor