Please Help With Permissions

[nakama85]

Everything was fine last night but today when I came home from work my hard drive that I have mounted to a folder has the lock symbol on it. I checked the permissions via "sudo nautlius" and they are correct. What happened???

[sisco311]

Probably an error occurred and the partition was remounted read only.

Unmount it and check it for errors. You can use gparted or the e2fsck command.

sudo unmount /dev/sdXY

sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -v -f /dev/sdXY

replace /dev/sdXY with the actual device name.

[nakama85]

Probably an error occurred and the partition was remounted read only.
Unmount it and check it for errors. You can use gparted or the e2fsck command.

sudo unmount /dev/sdXY

sudo e2fsck -C0 -p -v -f /dev/sdXY

replace /dev/sdXY with the actual device name.

Thanks. I ran "sudo umount /dev/sda1" like you suggested and tested it with no errors. I then rebooted it and it is working fine. Still scratching my head though on why it happened to begin with. I did not shut down or reboot between the time it was working and the time it stopped. Thanks Again