Writing to external hard drive

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 20:15, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi M.R.P,
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 20:01, M.R.P. zensky via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>> Hello Running ubuntu mate. I have a external hard drive that I want to write to but can’t. On my desktop I can see the drive and can see the files on drive but cannot alter any of its contents.
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>
> It could be many things. What is the full path to the hard drive? It could be a file permissions problem.
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> Run the 2 commands below and post its output to this list:-
> mount
> lsblk
>

Also tell us whether you can read it ok and what happens when you try
to write to it.
If you can read it then what does
ls   -l   some_file_that_can_read
show?

Colin