I have an external 160 gigs usb hard drive, and I can't write to it. With 'tail -f /var/log/kern.log' I discovered that it is attached to /dev/sde1
Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9 Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device found at 9 Nov 5 23:30:03 localhost kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Vendor: WDC WD16 Model: 00BB-00GUC0 Rev: 0 0 Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: SCSI device sde: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: sde: sde1 Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sde at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Nov 5 23:30:08 localhost kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1. My /etc/fstab is next cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdi1 /media/usbdisk auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sde1 /media/usbdisk1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 And I can't write to /media/usbdisk1 as user, nor as root. I also noticed that after (dis)connecting the external hard disk the permissions for /media/usbdisk1 change automatically: ls -l /media total 28 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-30 17:30 floppy -> floppy0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 floppy0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-08-26 18:30 Nuevo vol drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-08-17 19:14 usbdisk drwx------ 1 root root 4096 2005-08-17 14:30 usbdisk1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-09-27 12:54 usbdisk-1 and after umounting ls -l /media total 28 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom -> cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 cdrom1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2005-07-30 17:30 floppy -> floppy0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-07-30 17:30 floppy0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-08-26 18:30 Nuevo vol drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-08-17 19:14 usbdisk drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-11-05 23:19 usbdisk1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-09-27 12:54 usbdisk-1 same happens if I now connect, the permissions go back to 0700 What is going wrong? (I also mounted it manually mount -t ntfs -w to make sure, but still nothing) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
