formatted external drive but has only root access
by anon026 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#51GQH)
Hello :-)
Having an issue with external drive access, and would be very grateful for advice.
Couldn't remove some trash on an external, after looking online probably because had emptied main trash/unable to restore then delete properly? Decided to format the external to ext4, as was smallest, and had done others, without the following issues, quite a while ago. Gparted required root, and now the external drive only has root access.
Tried everything, looking online at loads of things ... chmod, chown, umount (worked) but then couldn't do chmod/said no such file or directory. Tried more gparted, format, mount, etc. Then saw something about ntsfix ... keeps saying it's worked, but external drive not visible in caja, yet gparted shows it's there, either with root access only or as unknown, depending on whatever faff I'd just tried. Spacefm error along the way showed error about not being a mountable system. Tried sudo mkfs.ext4 and sudo mount, but still nothing. sudo nano /etc/fstab shows no signs of the external.
Just going in circles, and getting nowhere. No idea if this mess would happen for any new external drive in the future also, or if the issue is only this drive.
Thank you
Having an issue with external drive access, and would be very grateful for advice.
Couldn't remove some trash on an external, after looking online probably because had emptied main trash/unable to restore then delete properly? Decided to format the external to ext4, as was smallest, and had done others, without the following issues, quite a while ago. Gparted required root, and now the external drive only has root access.
Tried everything, looking online at loads of things ... chmod, chown, umount (worked) but then couldn't do chmod/said no such file or directory. Tried more gparted, format, mount, etc. Then saw something about ntsfix ... keeps saying it's worked, but external drive not visible in caja, yet gparted shows it's there, either with root access only or as unknown, depending on whatever faff I'd just tried. Spacefm error along the way showed error about not being a mountable system. Tried sudo mkfs.ext4 and sudo mount, but still nothing. sudo nano /etc/fstab shows no signs of the external.
Just going in circles, and getting nowhere. No idea if this mess would happen for any new external drive in the future also, or if the issue is only this drive.
Thank you