Can't access external usb drive
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I have an external USB drive that currently when I connect to my computer appears as not being mounted, I click it, and it mounts, but when I try to access the folder it says I have not the right permissions. I can only use this as root.
I have tried running sudo nautilus, and navigated to the folder and right click to change permissions
It fails, automatically changes options to what they were.
I ahev tried running chown -R /media/user/diskfolder and it apparently worked but didn't do anything.
I have tried running chmod -R 777 /media/user/diskfolder and it apparently worked but didn't do anything.
How can I get access to it again in regular user not only root?
Thanks.
I'm just curious, did you run
sudo chown -R user /media/user/usbdrivename
to change ownership of the usb drive?
Thanks you! I had run the command the wrong way (I was basically always assigning the drive to root again and again, I wasn't including the user).
However, after running that proper command and being able to change permissions, I see no files at all inside the folder! And if I remove and insert the usb cable again, I am left again with the "no permissions for this folder" thing.
Could I be doing something wrong in the mounting part of the process?
Sorry I have figured it now. The command (as you explained) did the trick. But I was having an issue with my firejail profiles that was preventing accessing some folders in the system, which was causing the issue I mentioned above. All is good now I think. Thank you so much for all the help :)
Very glad I could help, I'm not that technically inclined, but have had this situation arise a lot of times myself.
Happy hacking :)
I had the same problem one year ago when I did some temporary work as
graphics designer for a company.
The graphics design area of the company shared common resources using an
external USB storage device.
It was so long since I tried this, but I remember having to edit the
"/etc/fstab" file to add an NTFS (or was it "NTFS-3G"?) mount point
under "/media/[Directy name that you would like to call it, without this
brackets and preferably without spaces and quotes.]".
I also installed "ntfs-3g" package, but I don't know if that is
required.
After this, however, I always had to press some key while booting my
copy of Trisquel, because "/etc/fstab" will be read and will probably
result in a message saying that your USB storage device is absent.
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