Beginner question: Ext4 Partition is readonly

[maycne.sonahoz]

Let’s have some precise information first.

@cscs

System Information ( inxi )

First no matter what the problem , provide the hardware and software with inxi -Fazy

Please open a terminal and type the commands as below. (Do Not type the $)

$ inxi -Fazy

[Aragorn]

@basementmedia

However, I can not save directly on it but only in a folder “basementmedia” (= my username).
How can I make the whole partition writable?

If you mean that you can write to /home/basementmedia but not to /home itself, this is normal. Unprivileged user accounts should not have write access to /home itself.

[robin0800]

sudo chown -R “username” /home/“username”/“foldername”

[basementmedia]

if i try to paste the result of command " inxi -Fazy" the message “Sorry you cant post links” is displayed ;-(

[stephane]

see this

How do I change ownership for a hard disk?

Open a terminal in fullscreen. Run lsblk to find out where the partition is mounted in the filesystem. Run: sudo chown $USER:$USER /path/to/mountpoint. Replace /path/to/mountpoint with the real one.

[basementmedia]

Hi,

this is my lsblk output:

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 48,8G 0 part /
└─sda3 8:3 0 416,6G 0 part /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916
sdb 8:16 0 1,8T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 16M 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 0 1,8T 0 part
sdd 8:48 0 931,5G 0 disk
├─sdd1 8:49 0 709,4G 0 part /run/media/basementmedia/ExterneFestplatte
└─sdd2 8:50 0 1K 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 2,8G 0 rom

The partition all is about is “sda3” so if i understand correctly, i have to
sudo chown $USER:$USER /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916

But then the following error is displayed:
Zugriff auf ‘/run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916’ nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

which means
Unable to access ‘/run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916’: file or directory not found

What am i doing wrong?

[JulianVickers]

I’m a new Jack too, but it sounds like maybe you’ve not got your partition mounted. Maybe

sudo mount /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916

then proceed as robin0800 suggests?

[basementmedia]

If i execute

sudo mount /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916

the following error message is displayed:

mount: /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916: konnte nicht in /etc/fstab gefunden werden.

in english “mount: /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916: could not be found in /etc/fstab.”

Today is a typical monday: nothing works

the strange thing: if i now execute lsblk again the name of the partition seems have changed:

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 465,8G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 300M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 48,8G 0 part /
└─sda3 8:3 0 416,6G 0 part /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916a-a9d3fc5841bc
sdb 8:16 0 1,8T 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 16M 0 part
└─sdb2 8:18 0 1,8T 0 part /run/media/basementmedia/Volume
sdd 8:48 0 931,5G 0 disk
├─sdd1 8:49 0 709,4G 0 part /run/media/basementmedia/ExterneFestplatte
└─sdd2 8:50 0 1K 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 2,8G 0 rom

but again if i then execute

sudo mount /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916a-a9d3fc5841bc

the same error message is displayed ;-( (…could not be found in /etc/fstab)

[JulianVickers]

Whoops I may have spoken a little hastily there… I think my syntax was bad. I think what I should have put in was

sudo mount /dev/sda3 /run/media/basementmedia/649e6c06-3495-4368-916

Told ya I was new

sorry about that

[basementmedia]

Ah, perfect. Now it works

[Aragorn]

The thing is that /run itself is a tmpfs, and that anything mounted to a directory under /run is therefore only an ad hoc solution. Better is to create a static mountpoint for the partition and add it to /etc/fstab.

If the partition contains only files that are owned by yourself, then I would suggest creating the mountpoint ─ as yourself, not with sudo ─ inside your $HOME, e.g. /home/basementmedia/data.

Then, run…

lsblk -o UUID /dev/sda3

… and write down (or copy) the UUID. Then, add a record for it to /etc/fstab…

sudo nano /etc/fstab

The record would look something like this…

UUID=the-UUID-you-copied  /home/basementmedia/data   ext4   auto,nofail,defaults   0   0

Save the file with Ctrl+O and leave the editor with Ctrl+X. If you reboot now, then the partition will automatically be mounted to /home/basementmedia/data.

[basementmedia]

Another last question: How can i rename the partition “Datenträger” (e.g. to "mondays suck;-)?

[JulianVickers]

Sweet! BY THE WAY…

@Fabby sent me a fantastic link if you’re new to Linux and want to start learning! Check out [HowTo] become a Manjaro power user when you’re a wizard at Windows but a N00b at Manjaro / Linux as it is a fantastic intro!

[JulianVickers]

Whuh oh… so you’re saying what I’ve done with my /etc/fstab (set it to auto mount under /run/media/) is… not good, then?

Thank you for this!

[JulianVickers]

Well… before you do that have a look atthe comment @Aragorn above. Looks like you may want to change your mount point. I certainly do

[basementmedia]

Good morning everybody,

after having mounted the partition as JulianVickers told me unfortunately the system does not boot anymore. The message “/sys/firmware/efi/efivars: unknown filesystem type ‘efivarfs’” is shown.
Or maybe it has to do with having changed the kernel to a realtime kernel?

What can i do to get the machine booting again?

Help ;-(

Best wishes
Daniel

[basementmedia]

Ah, it was the realtime kernel,
Changing back to the Kernel 5.9.16-1 has solved the problem.
But i want to use a realtime kernel (because i want to make high end audio production) which reccomends usind rt-kernels. In my case i tried the 5.9.1_rt19-1 kernel. Yesterday this kernel workes but this morning…no more?

[basementmedia]

Workes perfectly, thanx

[Fabby]

@basementmedia

if i try to paste the result of command " inxi -Fazy" the message “Sorry you cant post links” is displayed ;-(

Please read this:

[HowTo] post screenshots and links

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ You’ve probably been sent here by a more experienced user because you cannot post links nor screenshots so please follow the simple instructions of this tutorial below to allow you to post both screenshots and links in any post and have a short explanation of why you can’t do this easily… If you’re reading this in response to a question, please click the green link above this text to bring you to the full unabridged text of the tutorial itself. If you …

and this as per @maycne.sonahoz :

How to provide good information

Welcome to Manjaro! To allow all of us helpful gurus on this forum TO HELP YOU, we need some basic information about your system. This probably means you described the symptoms of your problem, but now we need some more information to know where the origin of your issue is exactly. Someone probably linked you to this tutorial, so if you’re reading this in response to a question, please click the green link above this text to bring you to the full and unabridged text of the tutorial…

@basementmedia

Another last question: How can i rename the partition “Datenträger” (e.g. to "mondays suck;-)?

As you provide little information, we don’t know your DE (Desktop Environment) but if you’re on Gnome, use gparted and under KDE use partitionamanager. Under XFCE install one of those 2.

Furthermore, I’ve marked this answer as the solution to your question as it is by far the best answer you’ll get.

Beginner question: Ext4 Partition is readonly

The thing is that /run itself is a tmpfs, and that anything mounted to a directory under /run is therefore only an ad hoc solution. Better is to create a static mountpoint for the partition and add it to /etc/fstab. If the partition contains only files that are owned by yourself, then I would suggest creating the mountpoint ─ as yourself, not with sudo ─ inside your $HOME, e.g. /home/basementmedia/data. Then, run… lsblk -o UUID /dev/sda3 … and write down (or copy) the UUID. Th…

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