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    external hd problem

    hey all. have a bit of an issue. just bought a set of 2 750gb hds to replace my other 2 500 gb drives. so, its a dual drive enclosure. so before the 500gb drives worked no problem. so now, ive put in one of the 750gb drives with the 500gb to transfer data. but i cant create new folders or write data to it. i formated it already to ext3 with gtparted, and te system does recognize it no problem, but how do i get things set up so i can write data to it? pleaseeee please help
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    Re: external hd problem

    also, just to update everyone, i tried using the drive on its own as external device, same problem. recognized and all, but, sadly no way to write to it, ie, create a new folder.
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      Re: external hd problem

      Is this a USB drive?

      I see a lot of posts about folks struggling with external hard drives -- they don't seem to be exactly "easy out of the box". You might try adding your user to the fuse group -- open Kmenu>System Settings>User Management, and after selecting "Administrator" mode, highlight the user (yourself), choose "Modify", then click the "Select" button beside "secondary groups", scroll down to the "fuse" group, and add it to the user. I know this is necessary to work with external hard drives that are NTFS formatted -- don't know if it applies to all external hard drives.

      Otherwise, I guess the crude approach would be to change the permissions on the device so you are the owner of it, rather than "root" which is the default owner of hard drives, AFAIK.

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        Re: external hd problem

        hey dibl. thanks for the tip. im abt to reboot and give that a try. as for this crude approach, how do go about doing that? i think its like chmod 777 or something like that brb
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          Re: external hd problem

          hey all. so i tried the fuse, but it didnt do anything.

          also, i tried out this command

          sudo chmod 777 /media/dev/sdb1

          but came back with this error:

          chmod: cannot access "/media/dev/sdb1" :no such file or directory

          whats up with that!?

          pllllllease help!
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            Re: external hd problem

            Was the hd mounted at the time? Also what is the mount point that you have set for the drive as that is normally what you modify. Another thing might be worth trying would be 'chown' and change the owner to yourself as you should then have read/write permissions.
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              Re: external hd problem

              Originally posted by mikemaxwell2501

              as for this crude approach, how do go about doing that? i think its like chmod 777 or something like that?
              I just use
              Code:
              kdesu konqueror
              and then right click the drive and click the Properties > Permissions tab, and change it to the "dibl" owner and the "dibl" group.
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                Re: external hd problem

                thank you thank you thank you a million times! the crude approach worked and everything is happy and working! now all i have to get is the wireless up and running and im in business
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