forcemerge 558673 564854 thanks Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Package: devicekit-disks > Version: 009-2 > Severity: important > > Hi, > > first: I am not quite sure if devicekit-disks is the right package to report > this bug against. The culprit might be everything between maybe gnome-mount > and linux-2.6. However, I have chosen this package, because it appears as > uhelper in the mount parameters of the affected harddisk drive. I am sorry > for the inconvenience if this is the wrong address for this bug; in this case > please feel free to reassign as appropriate. > > I have a brand new "Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB Black" > external harddisk drive. Whenever I attach it to an USB port of my computer, > the drive is automatically detected and mounted; nice. However, I am not able > to either touch or create any file or directory on this device. I always get > the same error: > > $ LANG=C touch /media/My\ Passport/bla > touch: cannot touch `/media/My Passport/bla': Permission denied > > Well, this simply cannot be true, the device is mounted "rw" and I am in both > groups "disk" and "floppy". The ntfs file system also cannot be the culprit, > because the other two (internal) partitions that I have mounted are also ntfs > and I can read and write on them as I like. The mount command shows that all > ntfs partitions are mounted with the exact same options: > > $ mount > [...] > usectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) > /dev/sdb1 on /media/My Passport type ntfs > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077) > /dev/sda5 on /media/E24841A2484175F7 type ntfs > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077) > /dev/sda1 on /media/1CAC7DE3AC7DB7BA type ntfs > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077)
Problem is, that you are using the in-kernel ntfs driver, which is read-only. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560780#23 for a workaround and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554599 for some background Merging with existing bug report(s). Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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