“Permission denied” on file system
Strangest thing happened just today. On my Ubuntu laptop, I have 2 ext3 partitions and 3 ntfs partitions. Even though all ntfs 3 partitions were mounted with the read-write option, I couldn’t write to them. I used a simple “touch hello” test and even that command failed.
A search on the ubuntu forums found that I have to use the chown command to grant myself permission to use the file system.
sudo chown (userid) /media/disk
Immediately afterwards I had write permission to the disk.
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