[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#564854: Bug#564854: devicekit-disks: unable to properly mount my external harddisk

[Michael Biebl]

forcemerge 558673 564854
thanks

Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> Package: devicekit-disks
> Version: 009-2
> Severity: important
> 
> Hi,
> 
> first: I am not quite sure if devicekit-disks is the right package to report this bug against. The culprit might be everything between maybe gnome-mount and linux-2.6. However, I have chosen this package, because it appears as uhelper in the mount parameters of the affected harddisk drive. I am sorry for the inconvenience if this is the wrong address for this bug; in this case please feel free to reassign as appropriate.
> 
> I have a brand new "Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB Black" external harddisk drive. Whenever I attach it to an USB port of my computer, the drive is automatically detected and mounted; nice. However, I am not able to either touch or create any file or directory on this device. I always get the same error:
> 
> $ LANG=C touch /media/My\ Passport/bla
> touch: cannot touch `/media/My Passport/bla': Permission denied
> 
> Well, this simply cannot be true, the device is mounted "rw" and I am in both groups "disk" and "floppy". The ntfs file system also cannot be the culprit, because the other two (internal) partitions that I have mounted are also ntfs and I can read and write on them as I like. The mount command shows that all ntfs partitions are mounted with the exact same options:
> 
> $ mount
> [...]
> usectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/My Passport type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077)
> /dev/sda5 on /media/E24841A2484175F7 type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077)
> /dev/sda1 on /media/1CAC7DE3AC7DB7BA type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=devkit,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077)

Problem is, that you are using the in-kernel ntfs driver, which is read-only.
See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=560780#23 for a workaround
and http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=554599 for some background

Merging with existing bug report(s).
Cheers,
Michael



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