Writing to external hard drive

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

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From: clanlaw at gmail.com
Sent: February 12, 2021 17:23
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Reply to: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Writing to external hard drive


On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 at 20:15, Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> It could be many things. What is the full path to the hard drive? It could be a file permissions problem.
>
> 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
Do you have write permission? ls -l you could try sudo chmod 755m that should give you read write permission. 
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