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Changing ownership of read-only file system

rated 0 times [ 4] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 65730 / 1 Year ago, thu, may 11, 2023, 12:39:50

I did read the several posts available here on "changing ownership of read-only file systems" but they don't seem to help me.

My external hard drive (which I had previously formatted in OS X and used on it for over a year) doesn't allow me to copy anything from/on to it FROM my Ubuntu 11.10

It says that the file system is read only when I try this:

sudo chown -R my-user-name /"Untitled 1"

Where "Untitled 1" is the name of the external hdd.

Any suggestions?

Even getting into nautilius with sudo nautilius to change the ownership didn't work.

(on a side note, what is nautilius anyway? I know I can google THAT)

What should I do now?

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answered 1 Year ago emuralm · Accepted Answer

Ok, so after a lot of looking around and conferring with my friends, this is what worked for me.

My external hard drive has a journaled file system (hfs+). I don't quite care what that means but I had to "disable journaling".

For this I had to connect my hdd to my macbook and run the following command in it's terminal

sudo /usr/sbin/diskutil disableJournal /Volumes/name-of-my-external-hdd

That worked and my hdd is now read AND write enabled!!

Hope this helps someone in the future! :)