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Images wouldnt upload due to file size… so I’ve added some links so you can see the images better… hope this is ok with the forum.
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It’s all looking like it should,
the Humax drive /dev/sdc1 is mounted to
/media/ubuntu/USB-1
and it’s mounted rw (read/write) and there’s plenty of space, there’s around 200GB used with around 700GB free.
I’m still unsure as to why it can’t be written to. From the shell/term window again, can you change directory into the USB-1 directory
cd /media/ubuntu/USB-1
and create a test file…
touch test.txt
and either check whether it’s been created or post the error message, use ls -lrt and test.txt should be the last file, again you may need to use ‘sudo’
ls -lrt
if you can create the test.txt file then I’m not sure why it’s not copying/pasting, the next step would be to try it manually.
By the looks of the screen shots vista (/dev/sda1) is mounted to /media/ubuntu/B89E…. or maybe 889E…
cd into that directory from the shell/term window
cd /media/ubuntu/B8*
or /media/ubuntu/88*
keep on changing directory until you find a file you want to copy to test copying to the Humax disk, i.e. cd temp, cd video etc. etc., I’ll assume it’s called ‘myfile.txt’
copy that file to the Humax disk
cp myfile.txt /media/ubuntu/USB-1
again report any errors, you can check the file has been copied using
ls -lrt /media/ubuntu/USB-1
try a small file first, there maybe a 32bit 4GB restriction on copying, again use sudo if necessary.
let us know how you’re getting on, if you’ve got this far you’re doing really well as Linux first time round is very daunting.
With them commands it’s saying commands not found with them all in Ubuntu.
Can you please explain in simple terms if I’m doing it wrong.
If I go to properties of the external hard drive on Ubuntu it’s stating root and I can’t change or copy anything because I’m not the owner? Does this make any sense to you?
you may have to put sudo in front of the commands to get them to work, sudo is super user (su) and should allow all commands, even without sudo you should be able to change directory (cd) and list (ls). Try again with sudo
Yeah even with sudo it was still not working.
Anyway you’re not going to believe this, all the files which trying to read them in Ubuntu were saying unable to mount. I decided I was going to go back on windows and try mount again on that and automatically assign a letter and boom, works fine. Can happily copy and paste.
It’s so weird it’s now working.
Thanks for your help. Really appreciate everything you did for me.
Phew! I’m glad it’s all working with windows now.
ubuntu is supposed to be the most user friendly of all the Linux distro’s, I tend to use suse, and as you can see it’s a steep learning curve. I think I forgot to tell you to start file manager and click on the two drives again, which would have automatically mounted/mapped them.
Moving forward, be careful how you disconnect the Humax drive, in windows use the ‘safely remove hardware’ before pulling the drive and on the HDFoxT2 always shut the box down first and wait for the drive to power down, this way no files will be left open for writing and the drive/file-system state will be clean
Thank you very much, all information taken into consideration.
Thanks again.
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