USB mounting problem

[natedizzle]

I have a couple of external hard drive enclosures that I use with my Gentoo box from time to time. They are formatted with NTFS. Until recently, I could plug them in and Hal, dbus, and kde would mount them for me.

Now they are not working properly. When I plug them in, they get mounted but they are owned by root, and only accessible by root. So as root i try to make a directory or file on then drive and it tells me "operation not permitted." The permissions for the folder and the files are at least RWX for owner, so it's not a permissions issue.

If I manually mount them, I get the same problem. No matter the permissions, I can't write to the disk.

mount reports that they are mounted rw.

If I use my flash drive (FAT) it gets mounted automatically and works.

Any idea of the problem?

[geforce]

unless you use new ntfs drivers (like linux-ntfs), NTFS writing support is very limited or should I say do not exists.


even if it's mounted RW, you won't be able to write on it since the driver only support reading on ntfs


It's normal that you can write on the FAT drive since there is the writing support .



And for the drivers mounted for root, i suggest you to try adding this line to FSTAB and mount it manually to see if it works