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mulluysavage
December 3rd, 2009, 02:44 PM
I'm following the InstallingaNewHardDrive How-to, and I'm soooo close. I've got it mounted, and can see the drive and get properties at /media/mydrive. I just can't create a new folder at all. I can see that the owner is root(root). When I open a terminal and run

sudo chown -R user /media/mydrive

it returns

"Operation not permitted"

what to do?
Anonymousable
December 3rd, 2009, 02:55 PM
sudo -i
cd /media/mydrive
mkdir folder
chown -R user:user folder
You should then be able to create files in folder. Just replace folder with a preferred name ;)
mulluysavage
December 8th, 2009, 12:33 AM
The Chown command returned "Operation not permitted."
Dennis N
December 8th, 2009, 08:19 AM
I'm following the InstallingaNewHardDrive How-to, and I'm soooo close. I've got it mounted, and can see the drive and get properties at /media/mydrive. I just can't create a new folder at all. I can see that the owner is root(root)...

Is it formatted in ext3/ext4? The method described here (in post #4) has worked for me:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1329975