I am not able to save files to my external hard disk in Manjaro and also when I set my default file locations on to my external drive they were reset to the default ones after I rebooted.
I am using a Manjaro + Win10 dual boot, and I usually store my files on my HHD instead of the SSD I boot from.
I read somewhere that this is a permission issue as applications do not have permissions to acess the external drive.
How do I fix this ?
(PS: I am a Manjaro (technically linux) newbie so please try not to get triggered if this is a really stupid question)
Welcome to the forum. As you have mentioned that you dual boot with windows, please disable fast startup in windows. Control panel>Power options>Choose what closing the lid does>Uncheck fast startup checkbox>Apply settings
That may help. Also post the output of lsblk
I am pretty sure you can use the chmod 777 /pathtodrive command for this.
I have turned off fast startup and this was the output when I ran the lsblk command
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 164.8M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/gnome-3-28-1804/161
loop1 7:1 0 65.1M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/gtk-common-themes/1515
loop2 7:2 0 32.3M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/snapd/12883
loop3 7:3 0 55.4M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/core18/2128
loop4 7:4 0 74.4M 1 loop /var/lib/snapd/snap/p3x-onenote/128
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part /run/media/myname/DATA
nvme0n1 259:0 0 238.5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 260M 0 part /boot/efi
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 16M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 139.7G 0 part /run/media/myname/Windows
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 648M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 97.9G 0 part /
The DATA drive is where I usually store my files.
With lsblk -f we can see also what filesystem that DATA has. If is NTFS, then you need to use the ntfs-3g package. Also i would recommend avoid to automount it trough fstab, and instead mount it via File Manager, but that is up to you.
More about NTFS-3G - ArchWiki
If is a Linux filesystem, then take ownership of that partition.
My HHD is still using NTFS, also to note that my system has the NTfs-3G package installed to it already.
I have added the drive to automount in fstab now but the problem still persists. When I try to make a file in LibreOffice (or any program in general) I get an error message while saving the file to the external drive saying
Object not accessible.
The object cannot be accessed
due to insufficient user rights.
So how do I grant these “user rights” to the programmes ?
Share that entry in fstab with us, but i hope you read the link i shared to the wiki above … Also, hope you turned off the required things in Windows. Also, is the search forum not working ?
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This is my fstab entry
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#data drive automount (dev/sda1)
UUID=C028D53E28D5345E /run/media/myname/DATA ntfs defaults 0 0
And thanks for the link I’m sorry I didnt get the idea to look for a possible solution on the forum.
This was the most important
if you read that, you would know why this
is wrong. Has to be ntfs-3g
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