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gparted format internal second drive permision denied

Asked by izzy200198

Hello all,

I installed a second drive in Intrepid Ibex. Used Gparted to format the drive ext3. it shows up in Computer folder. But when i try to copy a file onto it it says error writing file. I click details it says permission denied. and then the drive is no longer listed in Computer folder and no longer listed in the partition editor. but if i reboot it will be listed in the partition editor but not in Computer folder. Im at a loss.

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izzy200198 (izzy200198) said : 		#1

ok i rebooted and the drive is showing in both computer folder and partition editor. but it still says permission denied if i try to copy a file onto the drive. anyone have any ideas as to why i dont have permision to write a file to the drive when im the one that reformatted it?

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collinp (collinp) said : 		#2

You formatted the drive as a root user. You need to format the drive as a normal user, which is just without using sudo, gksudo, or su. If you did not format it as root, and after formatting it as a normal user, you may need to format it as root by typing in terminal, "gksudo gparted" (without the quotations).

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izzy200198 (izzy200198) said : 		#3

i had gparted installed. so i went to system...administration...partition editor which longs gui gparted. when you do that it does prompt you for a password. i then deleted the existing ntfs partition and creating a new partition ext3. I also tried using gparted live cd but it didnt help. when i did that and booted back into ubuntu the drive no longer showed in Computer folder.

if i type gksudo gparted in the terminal it does launch gparted. but i cant actually do anything. i did notice that if i format it fat32 then its fine. but if i format it ext3 which i need then i have permision issues. im still unable to access this drive.

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izzy200198 (izzy200198) said : 		#4

presently my situation is that i copied a partition successfully using gpartped live cd. but it does not show the drive in computer folder. it does show in gparted however in ubuntu.

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izzy200198 (izzy200198) said : 		#5

so i used gksudo nautilus and browsed to the disk root directory and i was able to right click and choose properties and go to the permissions tab and change owner from root to me. this allowed me to now manually copy data to the disk.

but i need to make a backup so i booted up on the gparted live cd to copy a partition onto this secondary internal drive. it completed succesfully. but when i booted back into ubuntu the drive is no longer in my computer folder.

this is really driving me nuts. alli want to do is backup some data onto another drive and i cant seem to make that happen. any ideas...anyone?

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Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#6

If you are unable to write to an ext3 partition it probably because it is owned by root and you don´t have permission.

Please read this community document regarding ownership/permissions.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions

If you are still having problems please try to mount the partition and then open a teminal and type

sudo fdisk -lu
sudo mount
cat /etc/fstab

Please tell... the output of these commands for better help

Thanks

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izzy200198 (izzy200198) said : 		#7

i got by, by using the ntfs file system to move my data around. i hated to do this, but i wasted an entire day trying to see a partition and had simply had enough. The end game was to move my data around so i could install a new drive and read the partition i need to get the data back. I was able to do this in file systems other than ext3.