not sure what I did but all my drives are read only unless access them as root. any one know a way to fix this?
chown the mount directories to your user.
chown and the the stuff listed on the superuser page aren’t working.
I have 3 ntfs drives mounted I tested the script and chmod on the 3rd on but it still has the same problems as the other 2.
I can delete and rename files using the nemo file manager but moving and creating files can only be done as running nemo as root. I get a message saying “the destination is read-only”.
strange thing is by using the terminal I can move and create files with-out being root.
theres your problem.
You must be in linux and are trying to access drives that a windows partition uses I assume.
Windows doesn’t like to play nice and will have an unclean shutdown of a drive; basically writing cache to the drive. Other OS like linux will think that the drive is still in use by Windows and only allows read only access.
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdXY
;x is drive
;y is partition
;/dev/sda3 for example
sudo mount -o rw /dev/sdXY
I don’t think this is the issue. The problem is that NTFS uses a different permission system than Linux, which results in Linux falling back to only allowing root access.
@OP To determine whether this is the case try to mount the drives manually (not via fstab) and report whether you get an error message or not.