Mount external HDD with writing permissions
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I'm using a 2.7T Porsche Design Desktop Drive (external HDD) at work and I need to mount it on a Proxmox 4.4-13 server. Currently I have several personal info but also have around 1TB free and the Proxmox server is running out of space. So after plug-in the disk to the server and execute fdisk -l the output is:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 * 63 732566645 732566583 2.7T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
And the output for blkid is:
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="linux" UUID="2AB890F5B890C12D" TYPE="ntfs"
So far Proxmox is listing the external device with the identifier sdc1. Now I need to create a mount point for the external HDD. I won't use /mnt/ because Proxmox has some relevant info already there. The directory will be created at /home/ and the name will be mountpoint so:
mkdir mountpoint
The next steps show the process of mounting the device (mount) with rw permission, entering the mountpoint file (cd) and listing the files within (ls)
root@pve02:/home# mount -o rw /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
root@pve02:/home# cd mountpoint/
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint# ls
admin.jpg BackupsELEKA Pedro $RECYCLE.BIN System Volume Information
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint#
As the picture describes, the mount process was good, the ls command lists all the folder inside the external HDD. However when I try to create a folder (mkdir) or even create a file (touch) I got this:
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint# mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Read-only file system
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint#
Then WHY? Didn't the option rw specify to allow read and write on the external disk? I have to say I tried to create folder and files inside a folder (Pedro and BackupsELEKA) and still nothing.
The thing is this should be a simple process to achieve, not a big deal, just like any other OS could do, why so difficult?
I'm posting this question after reading several posts such as:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/333287/external-hard-disk-read-only
and
https://askubuntu.com/questions/47538/how-to-make-read-only-file-system-writable
mount external-hdd readonly
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I'm using a 2.7T Porsche Design Desktop Drive (external HDD) at work and I need to mount it on a Proxmox 4.4-13 server. Currently I have several personal info but also have around 1TB free and the Proxmox server is running out of space. So after plug-in the disk to the server and execute fdisk -l the output is:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 * 63 732566645 732566583 2.7T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
And the output for blkid is:
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="linux" UUID="2AB890F5B890C12D" TYPE="ntfs"
So far Proxmox is listing the external device with the identifier sdc1. Now I need to create a mount point for the external HDD. I won't use /mnt/ because Proxmox has some relevant info already there. The directory will be created at /home/ and the name will be mountpoint so:
mkdir mountpoint
The next steps show the process of mounting the device (mount) with rw permission, entering the mountpoint file (cd) and listing the files within (ls)
root@pve02:/home# mount -o rw /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
root@pve02:/home# cd mountpoint/
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint# ls
admin.jpg BackupsELEKA Pedro $RECYCLE.BIN System Volume Information
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint#
As the picture describes, the mount process was good, the ls command lists all the folder inside the external HDD. However when I try to create a folder (mkdir) or even create a file (touch) I got this:
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint# mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Read-only file system
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint#
Then WHY? Didn't the option rw specify to allow read and write on the external disk? I have to say I tried to create folder and files inside a folder (Pedro and BackupsELEKA) and still nothing.
The thing is this should be a simple process to achieve, not a big deal, just like any other OS could do, why so difficult?
I'm posting this question after reading several posts such as:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/333287/external-hard-disk-read-only
and
https://askubuntu.com/questions/47538/how-to-make-read-only-file-system-writable
mount external-hdd readonly
asked Jan 4 at 21:08
Ophion
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I'm using a 2.7T Porsche Design Desktop Drive (external HDD) at work and I need to mount it on a Proxmox 4.4-13 server. Currently I have several personal info but also have around 1TB free and the Proxmox server is running out of space. So after plug-in the disk to the server and execute fdisk -l the output is:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 * 63 732566645 732566583 2.7T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
And the output for blkid is:
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="linux" UUID="2AB890F5B890C12D" TYPE="ntfs"
So far Proxmox is listing the external device with the identifier sdc1. Now I need to create a mount point for the external HDD. I won't use /mnt/ because Proxmox has some relevant info already there. The directory will be created at /home/ and the name will be mountpoint so:
mkdir mountpoint
The next steps show the process of mounting the device (mount) with rw permission, entering the mountpoint file (cd) and listing the files within (ls)
root@pve02:/home# mount -o rw /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
root@pve02:/home# cd mountpoint/
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint# ls
admin.jpg BackupsELEKA Pedro $RECYCLE.BIN System Volume Information
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint#
As the picture describes, the mount process was good, the ls command lists all the folder inside the external HDD. However when I try to create a folder (mkdir) or even create a file (touch) I got this:
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint# mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Read-only file system
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint#
Then WHY? Didn't the option rw specify to allow read and write on the external disk? I have to say I tried to create folder and files inside a folder (Pedro and BackupsELEKA) and still nothing.
The thing is this should be a simple process to achieve, not a big deal, just like any other OS could do, why so difficult?
I'm posting this question after reading several posts such as:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/333287/external-hard-disk-read-only
and
https://askubuntu.com/questions/47538/how-to-make-read-only-file-system-writable
mount external-hdd readonly
asked Jan 4 at 21:08
Ophion
34
I'm using a 2.7T Porsche Design Desktop Drive (external HDD) at work and I need to mount it on a Proxmox 4.4-13 server. Currently I have several personal info but also have around 1TB free and the Proxmox server is running out of space. So after plug-in the disk to the server and execute fdisk -l the output is:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdc1 * 63 732566645 732566583 2.7T 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
And the output for blkid is:
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="linux" UUID="2AB890F5B890C12D" TYPE="ntfs"
So far Proxmox is listing the external device with the identifier sdc1. Now I need to create a mount point for the external HDD. I won't use /mnt/ because Proxmox has some relevant info already there. The directory will be created at /home/ and the name will be mountpoint so:
mkdir mountpoint
The next steps show the process of mounting the device (mount) with rw permission, entering the mountpoint file (cd) and listing the files within (ls)
root@pve02:/home# mount -o rw /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
root@pve02:/home# cd mountpoint/
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint# ls
admin.jpg BackupsELEKA Pedro $RECYCLE.BIN System Volume Information
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint#
As the picture describes, the mount process was good, the ls command lists all the folder inside the external HDD. However when I try to create a folder (mkdir) or even create a file (touch) I got this:
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint# mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Read-only file system
root@pve02:/home/mountpoint#
Then WHY? Didn't the option rw specify to allow read and write on the external disk? I have to say I tried to create folder and files inside a folder (Pedro and BackupsELEKA) and still nothing.
The thing is this should be a simple process to achieve, not a big deal, just like any other OS could do, why so difficult?
I'm posting this question after reading several posts such as:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/333287/external-hard-disk-read-only
and
https://askubuntu.com/questions/47538/how-to-make-read-only-file-system-writable
mount external-hdd readonly
asked Jan 4 at 21:08
Ophion
34
edited Jan 4 at 21:23
asked Jan 4 at 21:08
Ophion
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asked Jan 4 at 21:08
Ophion
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asked Jan 4 at 21:08
Ophion
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Don't post screenshots of text, paste the actual text.
– jasonwryan
Jan 4 at 21:14
I don't get why that could be a reason to downvote the post, still I will put the actual text.
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:18
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Don't post screenshots of text, paste the actual text.
– jasonwryan
Jan 4 at 21:14
I don't get why that could be a reason to downvote the post, still I will put the actual text.
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:18
Don't post screenshots of text, paste the actual text.
– jasonwryan
Jan 4 at 21:14
Don't post screenshots of text, paste the actual text.
– jasonwryan
Jan 4 at 21:14
I don't get why that could be a reason to downvote the post, still I will put the actual text.
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:18
I don't get why that could be a reason to downvote the post, still I will put the actual text.
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:18
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it's an ntfs filesystem , so you must pass the right type of filesystem to the mount command
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
answered Jan 4 at 21:22
D'Arcy Nader
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You should explain there is a performance impact to using that and why his original command didn't work.
– jdwolf
Jan 4 at 21:23
After running that command I get: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:25
Looks like I don't have ntfs-3g installed, going out from work, will feed tomorrow the result after installing ntfs-3g
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:30
you don't have the ntfs-3g package already installed on your system.
– D'Arcy Nader
Jan 4 at 21:31
I updated repositories then did apt-get install ntfs-3g. Finally mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint as @D'ArcyNader suggested and now I can create directories inside the external drive.
– Ophion
Jan 5 at 12:35
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1 Answer
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it's an ntfs filesystem , so you must pass the right type of filesystem to the mount command
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
answered Jan 4 at 21:22
D'Arcy Nader
678414
You should explain there is a performance impact to using that and why his original command didn't work.
– jdwolf
Jan 4 at 21:23
After running that command I get: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:25
Looks like I don't have ntfs-3g installed, going out from work, will feed tomorrow the result after installing ntfs-3g
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:30
you don't have the ntfs-3g package already installed on your system.
– D'Arcy Nader
Jan 4 at 21:31
I updated repositories then did apt-get install ntfs-3g. Finally mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint as @D'ArcyNader suggested and now I can create directories inside the external drive.
– Ophion
Jan 5 at 12:35
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
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it's an ntfs filesystem , so you must pass the right type of filesystem to the mount command
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
answered Jan 4 at 21:22
D'Arcy Nader
678414
You should explain there is a performance impact to using that and why his original command didn't work.
– jdwolf
Jan 4 at 21:23
After running that command I get: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:25
Looks like I don't have ntfs-3g installed, going out from work, will feed tomorrow the result after installing ntfs-3g
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:30
you don't have the ntfs-3g package already installed on your system.
– D'Arcy Nader
Jan 4 at 21:31
I updated repositories then did apt-get install ntfs-3g. Finally mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint as @D'ArcyNader suggested and now I can create directories inside the external drive.
– Ophion
Jan 5 at 12:35
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
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up vote
0
down vote
accepted
it's an ntfs filesystem , so you must pass the right type of filesystem to the mount command
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
answered Jan 4 at 21:22
D'Arcy Nader
678414
it's an ntfs filesystem , so you must pass the right type of filesystem to the mount command
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint/
answered Jan 4 at 21:22
D'Arcy Nader
678414
answered Jan 4 at 21:22
D'Arcy Nader
678414
answered Jan 4 at 21:22
D'Arcy Nader
678414
answered Jan 4 at 21:22
D'Arcy Nader
678414
678414
You should explain there is a performance impact to using that and why his original command didn't work.
– jdwolf
Jan 4 at 21:23
After running that command I get: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:25
Looks like I don't have ntfs-3g installed, going out from work, will feed tomorrow the result after installing ntfs-3g
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:30
you don't have the ntfs-3g package already installed on your system.
– D'Arcy Nader
Jan 4 at 21:31
I updated repositories then did apt-get install ntfs-3g. Finally mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint as @D'ArcyNader suggested and now I can create directories inside the external drive.
– Ophion
Jan 5 at 12:35
add a comment |Â
You should explain there is a performance impact to using that and why his original command didn't work.
– jdwolf
Jan 4 at 21:23
After running that command I get: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:25
Looks like I don't have ntfs-3g installed, going out from work, will feed tomorrow the result after installing ntfs-3g
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:30
you don't have the ntfs-3g package already installed on your system.
– D'Arcy Nader
Jan 4 at 21:31
I updated repositories then did apt-get install ntfs-3g. Finally mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint as @D'ArcyNader suggested and now I can create directories inside the external drive.
– Ophion
Jan 5 at 12:35
You should explain there is a performance impact to using that and why his original command didn't work.
– jdwolf
Jan 4 at 21:23
You should explain there is a performance impact to using that and why his original command didn't work.
– jdwolf
Jan 4 at 21:23
After running that command I get: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:25
After running that command I get: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-3g'
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:25
Looks like I don't have ntfs-3g installed, going out from work, will feed tomorrow the result after installing ntfs-3g
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:30
Looks like I don't have ntfs-3g installed, going out from work, will feed tomorrow the result after installing ntfs-3g
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:30
you don't have the ntfs-3g package already installed on your system.
– D'Arcy Nader
Jan 4 at 21:31
you don't have the ntfs-3g package already installed on your system.
– D'Arcy Nader
Jan 4 at 21:31
I updated repositories then did apt-get install ntfs-3g. Finally mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint as @D'ArcyNader suggested and now I can create directories inside the external drive.
– Ophion
Jan 5 at 12:35
I updated repositories then did apt-get install ntfs-3g. Finally mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /home/mountpoint as @D'ArcyNader suggested and now I can create directories inside the external drive.
– Ophion
Jan 5 at 12:35
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Don't post screenshots of text, paste the actual text.
– jasonwryan
Jan 4 at 21:14
I don't get why that could be a reason to downvote the post, still I will put the actual text.
– Ophion
Jan 4 at 21:18