Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable
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AG wrote:
> I have a large external USB hard drive on which I store back ups and
> media files. When last I went to write something to this drive it
> worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have
> access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I cannot
> do back ups nor can I create new directories, etc.
>
> I have tried the usual approach to these kinds of issues, i.e. sudo
> chmod -R 0755 /path/to/drive but this has absolutely no effect. I am
> identified as the owner of the drive and as part of the group, but I
> cannot change the permissions of this either as root directly nor using
> sudo.
>
> Any thoughts on how I can fix this?
Just thoughts based on your spare information. Have you tried to fix
owner and permissions of the mount point?
It is not sufficient to have permissions on /path/to/drive, you also
need the appropriate permissions on *all* parent directories.
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