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hnugz:
I've got Knoppix installed and I'm trying to access my external usb hard drive.  I was able to mount the drive and access the files, however I am unable to delete any of them.  I get the permission denied error.  This happens even in root.  I've done lots of google searching on this and I've seen places where they say you need to add certain permissions in order to do this but I haven't found any instructions that work.  How can I make it so I can delete files from the drive?  Thanks.

cymon:
chmod +r+w+x?

I think that's the command, sounds like a permissions problem. Look at the man page for chmod, not sure if that's the exact syntax.

piratePenguin:
What filesystem is on the drive?
Once it's mounted, running 'mount' (with no options) should tell you.

hnugz:
yeah i tried chmod but it wouldn't let me.  It says chmod: changing permissions of 'SNES'': Read-only file system.  I do a ls -l but it still says dr-x------.  The drive is an ntfs drive.  Thanks.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: hnugz ---yeah i tried chmod but it wouldn't let me.  It says chmod: changing permissions of 'SNES'': Read-only file system.  I do a ls -l but it still says dr-x------.  The drive is an ntfs drive.  Thanks.
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Linux doesn't have write support for NTFS (well not proper write anyhow). You can write to it using the Windows driver (if you have Windows installed) and some program (can't remember the name). I'd suggest you convert the filesystem on the drive to fat32 (which basically all operating systems can read from and write to).

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