Found slave hard drive, but can't open folders or files

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-mkdir /ddrive



mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /ddrive



So, now it sees it. However, I can't open files or

folders. I even tried to open a txt file with the

OpenOffice text editor, but still no go.-



You made the folder in the root partition, which means it's more than
likely locked read only to anyone but root. Try this instead:



sudo umount /ddrive (unmount it)

mount (make sure it's actually unmounted - /dev/hdb1 should not be in
list)

mkdir /mnt/ddrive (put a folder where it belongs)

chmod -R 644 /mnt/ddrive (set permissions to give yourself r/w access)

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/ddrive (remount it)

mount (read this and make sure /mnt/ddrive  is on same line with
/dev/hdb1)

sudo rmdir /ddrive (if it's ok, now clean up after yourself)



Then it should work r/w for you in /mnt/ddrive



Now you can:



man mount



and learn about your mounting options!


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poptones