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<blockquote data-quote="Now Playing" data-source="post: 113362" data-attributes="member: 2381"><p>When adding another internal or external drive to your PC Linux will autodetect the drive and it's then up to you to partition & format (if it's not already done) and mount it in order to write data to it. In order to write to the disk you need to have the appropriate permissions and this is where we frequently get stuck. In Ubuntu, any USB or eSATA drives are typically mounted as /media/<volumename> where volumename is the name provided for the drive when it was formatted. By default Ubuntu will mount the device as user ROOT, meaning you won't have write permisson unless you run a root session. You can get around this my changing the owner of the mountpoint folder by opening a terminal window and typing the following:[code]sudo chown <yourusername>:<yourusername> /media/<volumename>[/code] Now, whenever the partition is mounted you'll have write permissions and Bob's your uncle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Now Playing, post: 113362, member: 2381"] When adding another internal or external drive to your PC Linux will autodetect the drive and it's then up to you to partition & format (if it's not already done) and mount it in order to write data to it. In order to write to the disk you need to have the appropriate permissions and this is where we frequently get stuck. In Ubuntu, any USB or eSATA drives are typically mounted as /media/<volumename> where volumename is the name provided for the drive when it was formatted. By default Ubuntu will mount the device as user ROOT, meaning you won't have write permisson unless you run a root session. You can get around this my changing the owner of the mountpoint folder by opening a terminal window and typing the following:[code]sudo chown <yourusername>:<yourusername> /media/<volumename>[/code] Now, whenever the partition is mounted you'll have write permissions and Bob's your uncle. [/QUOTE]
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