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no permision to write data on an external HD

Asked by micbon

from a newbie: i have an extrenal hd : i see it on the desktop and i see files in it, but i cannot modifie. in properties the HD is owned by /root and not by my account. i tried to change permissions of root whith no success.

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Best Christoph Langner (chrissss) said : 		#1

Do you know which file system the harddisk is formated with? NTFS?

If yes: NTFS had to be reversed engineered. This took a couple of years until the developers of linux said, that it is save to write onto NTFS harddisk under linux. The driver is called "ntfs-3g" an can be installed since ubuntu feisty. Under

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G

you can find more informations. The next version of ubuntu installs this driver automatically.

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micbon (m-bonelli) said : 		#2

very easy if you know it. thanks