automounting external hard drive

Mario Vukelic mario.vukelic at dantian.org
Tue Apr 22 17:08:50 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 10:04 -0500, Linda Hanigan wrote:
> When it automounts on the desktop it mounts as readonly. I'd like to
> change the automount so it mounts read/write but I don't know where to
> find the settings.

It is probably formatted with NTFS of FAT32. 

External disks usually come preformatted with FAT32, but in this case
this would be weird since Linux did not have problems with FAT32 for
many years, and these disks ara always mounted read-only.
Writing to NTFS was a problem for a long time, which has been solved
quite recently.

If the disk is new, the default format should be stated on the package.
Otherwise, it is probably easiest to find out by attaching the disk in
Windows and checking the driver properties there.

General info for how to use FAT32 and NTFS disks in Ubuntu can be found
here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

NTFS treatment differed from Ubuntu version to Ubuntu version, because
this area was under heavy development. The upcoming Ubuntu 8.04 has
read/write access to NTFS disks by default, earlier versions require
some manual work. Follow the links from the URL I gave above.

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