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On 2008-07-26, zed <zed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can mount (2) by going in to Computer and clicking on Mount but I cannot
> write to the drive.
What user are you trying to write to the drive as? Chances are the
drive's directory will be mounted as root, so if you are not trying to
log in as root then you won't be able to write to it. to fix this,
run a terminal and cd to the drive's directory, then use
"sudo chown <your user> ." and you should be able to write to it. I
don't know ubuntu though and know it has some limits about root
access, so running the command as root might be slightly different but
you get the idea.
If you can't write to it as root, execute dmesg to see if you can find
out why, if a filesystem is corrupt then it's often mounted as
read-only, or if you have an ext3 disc that was unmounted cleanly and
then mount that as ext2, I think it would only mount that read-only
too.
> Questions>
>
> (a) What do I do to have the drive mount at boot?
Add it to your fstab, however if it's USB then it may well not get
mounted automatically as I know on my system, USB discs are not
available until after all the filesystems have mounted, so you will
either have to run mount -a as root, or add the mount commands to a
script that runs well after the system startup has happened.
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