Re: Another approach to my RO drive issue...

On Jan 11, 2008 8:21 AM, Anthony Papillion <papillion@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

OK, so I've followed everyone's advice and I still can't get RW access to
my external USB hard drive. I think the issue is that the FS was created
under WinXP and is either NTFS of FAT32 (can't remember which) and that I
don't 'own' the FS. So, here's another approach I'd like to take but am not
sure how: how do I force Ubuntu to format the external drive as a Linux fs
and take ownership of it?

FYI, the drive is at /mnt/sda5

Thanks in advance,
Anthony

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Please, don't change the topic subject. This is confusing.
Before you do this, first check what fs the drive is. Just use gparted from
the live-cd. If it is ntfs, you can install ntfs-3g (sudo apt-get install
ntfs-3g) in the live cd. Then you can mount the drive as rw using the
filesystem ntfs-3g.

/Rutger
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