Only root can mount...

Discussion in 'Laptop Hardware' started by holywoodmum, Mar 31, 2010.

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    holywoodmum

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    Hi guys,
    forgive my ignorance but I'm really struggling here... Just plugged in external hard drive, and I couldn't write to it, but could read. Having had this problem before I went in to the NTFS configuration tool from the System menu and tried to change settings to allow write. This didn't work. Restarted machine, and now getting the message
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    mount: only root can mount /dev/sdb1 on /media/Philips External Hard Disk.
    Thought I'd try a memory stick instead, same result. Now I can't even read. Badly need to back up my wee machine, it's full to bursting... can anyone please help!
    Lucy
     
    holywoodmum, Mar 31, 2010
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    Jimux

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    You can be root, just prefix terminal line commands with sudo,
    ie sudo mount /dev/disk "/home/My new Drive" [enter]
    Also files owned by root can have their read permissions allowed for user with
    sudo chmod 777 thefilename [enter]
     
    Jimux, Apr 1, 2010
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