laan97ac Posted November 13, 2005 Report Share Posted November 13, 2005 How do I configure Mandriva 2006 to read files from my external USB HDU? Caution, newbie in action here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 When you plug it in, it should detect and provide a setting on your desktop. Do you use any other usb devices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laan97ac Posted November 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 I do use other USB devices - a mouse. When I plug it in nothing happens. If I open Konqueror I can see it in /mnt as sda5, but I get a message that I do not have "permission". What to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laan97ac Posted November 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 If I right click, properties, it is marked as a locked folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 su to root in a console, and see if you can browse the drive from there. (You can) If that works, you need to change permissions on the folder so that your regular user can see it. To do this using a gui, just type "konqueror" in the console as root, and you will have a gui to make changes like I have said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laan97ac Posted November 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 Thanx, but I still have problems: I logged in as root and everything on the USB HDU works. I can read all files and folders as root. But it will not let me change permissions. Even as root it resists to change permissions. How can that be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 (edited) Is the HD NTFS formatted? Which filesystem do you use? And anyway, plug in the USB HD, power it, and then checkout your /etc/fstab and copypaste it here. Edited November 14, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laan97ac Posted November 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 Yes, Believe it is NTFS mentioned as sda5 below. # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0022,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 /mnt/Ny_enhed ntfs pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,iocharset=iso8859-1,managed 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laan97ac Posted November 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 Just doublechecked by booting win XP - it is NTFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 (edited) If you are using in your system unicode by default, then try kdesu kwrite /etc/fstab and change "nls=iso8859-1" to "nls=utf-8". And also add an argument "user" there- so that a normal user (and not just root) can mount the volume. And finally please notice that the FS is "ro" (read-only), so if you try changing permissions and granting write access to a user (or in that case to anyone) it's natural to pick an error message. NTFS is not fully writable under Linux, unless you use the (rather obsolete) captive-ntfs driver, or the (commercial) Paragon NTFS driver. Both not installed by default in Mandy. Edited November 14, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laan97ac Posted November 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 Hi there, Thanx for the answer, I will not be in front of my Linux box in the next 3 days, but will try when I get back. I am well aware that it is read-only which is ok. I just want to read the files. I do not see nls anywhere in the file - is this a newbie thing? Where would be the right place to add "user"? How do I find out if I use unicode by default? These questions might be awfully simple but I am still new. Thanx again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 (edited) Oh yes, I'm sorry... just saw your line: /dev/sda5 /mnt/Ny_enhed ntfs pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,iocharset=iso8859-1,managed 0 0 If you created it yourself you have to change "iocharset" to "nls": iocharset is deprecated for NTFS filesystems- currently it is under use for vfat filesystems only. Check here or even simpler type man:mount in your konqueror's address bar. Edited November 14, 2005 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chalex20 Posted November 14, 2005 Report Share Posted November 14, 2005 /dev/sda5 /mnt/Ny_enhed ntfs pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,iocharset=iso8859-1,managed 0 0 If you created it yourself... Note this managed option. Clear sign of udev at work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laan97ac Posted November 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2005 Hi I did not create this myself, I plugged the USB HDU in and it showed up. The changes mentioned by scarecrow, do I enter them directly in fstab or do i umount and mount again? What is udev? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laan97ac Posted November 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 23, 2005 I tried to change the "managed" option in fstab, but it will not let me do anything even remounting with ro option does not work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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