Need read/write permissions on internal drive

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When I logon to my pc, I’m able to delete files/folders bypassing ‘Trash’.

After about 5 minutes, I’m then unable to delete or copy files/folders.

I’ve tried to gain ownership of my ext4 system, but all I get is: invalid group

Here’s a list of my drives, it’s the ‘MultiMedia’ drive that’s causing me problems.

/dev/sda1 on /Backup type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sdb3 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sdc1 on /MultiMedia type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sdd1 on /run/media/rhawkins/SeagateExpansion type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sdd1 on /var/run/media/rhawkins/SeagateExpansion type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered)

Appreciate any help/advice

Thanks :slight_smile:

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A copy of your fstab file would be nice to have. From terminal, give us the output of the following command placed inside code # tags if you can.

cat /etc/fstab

Using code tags prevent the text from being reformatted. Other useful terminal commands to see are:

df

free

Thank You,

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Hi jdmcdaniel3,

cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1000DHTZ-04N21V0_WD-WXU1E13SNFL2-part1 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1000DHTZ-04N21V0_WD-WXU1E13SNFL2-part2 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD103UJ_S13PJ1KQ219442-part1 /Backup              ext4       defaults              1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EARS-00S8B1_WD-WCAVY1871691-part1 /MultiMedia          ext4       defaults              1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD1000DHTZ-04N21V0_WD-WXU1E13SNFL2-part3 /home                ext4       defaults              1 2
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
linux-695o:/home/rhawkins # 



df
Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used  Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs          4045668          8    4045660   1% /dev
tmpfs             4095048       1028    4094020   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs             4095048       4516    4090532   1% /run
/dev/sdb2        20641788    7183612   12409604  37% /
tmpfs             4095048          0    4095048   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs             4095048       4516    4090532   1% /var/lock
tmpfs             4095048       4516    4090532   1% /var/run
/dev/sda1       961432072   71119164  841474908   8% /Backup
/dev/sdb3       938719072   35689348  902076040   4% /home
/dev/sdc1      1922859824 1485334416  339849736  82% /MultiMedia
/dev/sdd1      2884272344 1429670692 1451671400  50% /run/media/rhawkins/SeagateExpansion
/dev/sdd1      2884272344 1429670692 1451671400  50% /var/run/media/rhawkins/SeagateExpansion
linux-695o:/home/rhawkins # 



free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       8190100    7085000    1105100          0     181996    5630412
-/+ buffers/cache:    1272592    6917508
Swap:      2103292          0    2103292
linux-695o:/home/rhawkins #

Thanks for replying.

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So a problem that waits five minutes is kind of hard to troubleshoot. Nothing pops out from your info post. The Delete command used in the Dolphin File Manager is a Service that you must enable when you configure Dolphin. As for folder permissions, on non auto mounted folders, such as /MultiMedia, I would execute the terminal command:

sudo chmod 777 /MultiMedia

As for sdd1, you need to tell me what is this mount?

Thank You,

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Also how are you deleting ie from command line or GUI??

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Hi jdmcdaniel3,

Can confirm that the delete command used in Dolphin has been enabled.

sdd1 is a 3TB external hard drive, by Seagate.