On Friday 06 March 2009 13:36:55 Mark Haney wrote: > Paul Stear wrote: > > I have just bought a ionega 1 tb external hard disc but can not write to > > it. It is automatically mounted to media:/sdf1 but when I check the > > permissions they are for mu user name, group root, owner "can view > > Contents". Group and others "forbidden". I have tried as user and root to > > change permissions but I just get an error message saying "Could not > > change permissions > > for /media/iomega/HDD/System Volume Information. The disc is > > pre-formatted with NTFS and I will want to be able to connect it to > > windows some times. Thanks for any help > > Paul > > Just to clarify, are you mounting the fs with ntfs3g? Have you tried > unmounting and remounting manually? Thanks all for the responses. I am running ntfs3g on this machine. HAL is doing the mounting to system:/media. All I want is to be able to switch on the external drive, which then shows up on the desktop automatically and the copy files to it.
I just thought all of this happened automatically these days, so I feel as if I have something not set up correctly or missing from my amd64 kde system. Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux
