[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive will not mount in openSUSE 11,0

[Mittelgeek]

He is referring to the Tab on the properties for the device/folder/file. In
you r case probably the device/folder. I'm not an avid KDE fan, but I think
I recollect that if you right click on what you are trying to mount, i.e.,
the USB Drive, it will display a properties type dialog in which you should
see a tab with the name of permissions.

Most likely the device was not unmounted when removed and it freaked out.
When you tried to inserted the drive back in the OS thought the drive may
have been corrupted or something and mounted it as read only.

Try to unmount it and then remount. Or reboot the system and then try again.
Remember to unmount storage media before ejecting them from the system.

I'm fairly certain I may have explained something incorrectly and I and even
more certain that someone on the list will correct me.  =8)


On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Jeanne Smith <
godsgirl at healingcommunities.org> wrote:

>
> Hello All,
> Thanks for the reply.  I have no idea if I am using KDE 3 or 4.  I think
> its 4.  I do know that I am a user (although I am the only one on the
> computer) and not an owner.  I can not change my permissions.
>
> LOL about the forum they told me to go to a user group.
> >
> > Message: 6
> > Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:07:37 -0500
> > From: "Gilbert Morrow"
> > Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive will not mount in openSUSE
> >       11,0
> > To: "NTLUG Discussion List"
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> >
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> >
> > Most USB devices mount and unmount as you said automatically , old days
> had
> > to mount and unmount .
> > Is this KDE 3.x.x or 4.x.x ? Did you try just rebooting ?
> > SuSE has a great forum for answers , go to www.forum.opensuse.org .
> > Might want to look at "permission" and see if it is "user"or "owner" .
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Jeanne Smith <
> > godsgirl at healingcommunities.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello All,
> >> My husband and I are tent-making missionaries living in Europe. Since my
> >> German is not so good I thought I might need a english LUG and since I
> lived
> >> 23 yrs in Dallas I decided I might understand Texan better then German
> at
> >> the moment.
> >>
> >> I am a little lost. Last month my laptop was fried by an electrical
> problem
> >> in our flat. I could not afford a new one and someone gave me an old
> desktop
> >> without a OS. I decided having been Windoz based all my life to try
> Linux. I
> >> got a magazine that had the disk for OpenSUSE 11 with all the
> instructions
> >> in it.T
> >> The biggest challenge is that I can not write to my external USB
> harddrive.
> >> First of all I did not know I had to "mount" it. So I plugged it in and
> I
> >> believe the first time it automounted. Then I unplugged it to use it
> with
> >> another computer (I had no idea I had to unmount it) and when I plugged
> it
> >> back in I could only read the files. I could not save new files. When I
> try
> >> to save it either says KDE media manager is not on OR it crashes. I
> somehow
> >> managed to find KDE media manager and enable it, but now it says
> "mount:only
> >> root can mount /dev/sdb1/ on /media/IOMEGA_HDD.
> >>
> >> I also have many other small problems with software like Kaffiene that I
> do
> >> not have any idea how to resolve.
> >>
> >> I don't know enough about Linux to know how to troubleshoot it. Can
> anyone
> >> help a blonde thats new at Linux? Or maybe blondes should not play with
> >> Linux ;-)
> >>
> >> P.S. Please DON'T tell me to read the help files. If I had not ALREADY
> done
> >> that I would not be posting!
> >>
> >> Blessings,
> >> Jeanne Smith
> >> ===================
> >> www.healingcommunities.org
>
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