ocean wigeon
This is a new problem, when I first installed Mint I was able to mount and create files on another drive partition without issue. Now it says I need permission and I have to open the drive as root to create a new file.
This is a slight problem because this drive is used by a Windows VM to store surveillance camera footage. I can work around it, but I'm not sure why this is happening all of a sudden.
wide root
if the drive partition in question that you need write access on is ext4, then use the DISKS app (gnome-disk-utility) to take ownership of that partition
the command is in the gear icon menu
note: ONLY change the owner if it's a data drive, not a bootable one
pulsar verge
This is a new problem, when I first installed Mint I was able to mount and creat...
what is the FS used on that partition?
trail swift
It should say that in disks app as well. Or use
lsblk -f
in terminal
ocean wigeon
It is an NTFS partition, however apparently the file permissions are set to read only. I think probably did that myself messing around and experimenting but before I do anything else I'm going to boot back into windows to see what the file permissions are there before changing them via Mint.
ocean wigeon
Yeah I think I made my own trouble here and then forgot I did it 😂
pulsar verge
It is an NTFS partition, however apparently the file permissions are set to read...
Linux won't let you change permissions on a NTFS volume, it would break the windows system because they are handled diffrently.
bronze cave
If its mounted as read only its not that you need to be root to write to it its not NOTHING can write to it in that mode
May happen when a filesystem is mounted uncleanly eg it was mounted by the vm and you shut down without also shutting down the vm
can be corrected with ntfsfix if that is the case or in windows however you please
ocean wigeon
Thx for all the responses!
pulsar verge
Thx for all the responses!
is this solved?