Apologies for an extremely basic Linux question. For years, I have been able to plug in my MP3 player and download podcasts to it, from a variety of programs. But just yesterday, my player shows up in FILES, but with permission to copy or move files denied. I found the fix to unmount and hen re-mo…

[image] cliffsloane: I can think of some things I did, but none of them seem to make sense. Like what? … … … … … …

I removed a bad HDD (I think you know about that one) and in the process may have jostled some connectors. I know I had to unplug and replug the power cord because the start button was not working right away, and the same may have happened to the USB cord. Stuff like that.

If you changed the SATA connector used then your UEFI knows about the different SATA ID that your HDD is connected to and that might change some IDs within Linux. I’m not sure how it could be connected to the command you posted, exactly, but if that is the only thing you changed in your computer, es…

I did not change them, I just unplugged one and removed it. And I am still on Legacy mode. But how do I restore the automatic granting of R/W permissions?

[image] To own-back external ext3/4 HDDs on new computer Ubuntu Assuming your backup drive is /dev/sdb as from the output of fdisk, but I don’t know why one of your drives might be missing in the output, as I only see 1 root drive for either the new or the old Ubuntu and 1…

Does that apply to an MP3 player (FAT32) I only plug in on occasion?

[image] Akito: good starting point I mean that like “take this as a template and customize it to your needs”. I would turn off the automatic fsck (by changing the 0 1 to 0 0) and apply the different file system. You can look up the differences when handling external file systems, if there ar…

Here is he entry for USB devices in fstab: /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc auto nosuid,nodev,nofail,noauto,x-gvfs-show 0 0 How shall I edit this entry? Without editing this, it is two steps to mount it as R/W whenever I plug it in.

I generally would recommend using a UUID, to make sure the correct device is selected. Also, before editing /etc/fstab you should always create a backup and before rebooting you should make sure the entry actually works. That said, you maybe should specifiy the file system manually. I also found th…

This post, especially the last article, points in (what I hope is) the right direction, but it is definitely overwhelming for me. While information in /etc/fstab may be informative, the problem lies somewhere in udev, according to the article. But what happened to the udev rules? The drive is auto…

USB mount permissions not automatic

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Akito 8 August 2019 19:58 6

This should be a good starting point.