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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Vince Oliver wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have Suse10. Recently I bought external HD (USB2.0 EXTERNAL ENCLOSURE
> for 3.5" IDE devices). After booting, this devices was mounted on
> /media/EXTERNAL and I could go inside this directory and each
> subdirectories. Trying to copy some files tu the HD I got this message
> "read-only". In the fstab file there was nothing abouth the new device
> so I put:
>
> /dev/sda5   /media/EXTERNAL  subfs   defaults 0 0
>
> but there is no change except the message now is "Permission denied
> (13)". I checked, and there is a permission to read, writeand execute
> on this directory.  I was doing all this as SU. I do not really know
> how to make this functionable.
>
> Could somebody help me with this?

IIRC, format types other than FAT are mounted read only for ordinary users.

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