External drive mounted as read only

libreblw · May 3, 2019 at 9:43 PM

I have the problem that one of my external usb drives is mounted as read only after every startup. I am able to remount the drive as read/write with ssh but after every reboot the drive is mounted as read only again. Can someone give me a hint where libreelec saves the mount settings? I am using version 9.0.1 generic image on a x86 machine.

**Da Flex** · May 4, 2019 at 12:16 AM Official Post

You can find some config at "/etc/udevil/udevil.conf", but I don't think that's the problem. Login with SSH, find the drive's mount path by using the "mount" command (/var/media/...), and check the read / write permissions of the files you can't write. Use the "ls -la" command to read file permissions, and the "chmod" command to make files writable.

libreblw · May 5, 2019 at 5:03 PM

the problem is that the drive is mounted as "ro"

/dev/sdd2 on /var/media/DRIVE_1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)

/dev/sdc2 on /var/media/DRIVE_2 type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)

/dev/sdc2 on /var/media/DRIVE_3 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)

i can remount drive 2 to rw but after the next reboot its monted as ro again

**Iridium** · May 5, 2019 at 5:37 PM Official Post

What is the drive formatted as?

Is the external drive externally powered?

It's possible the drive might have errors and thus is being mounted r/o

Can you post the URL of

dmesg | paste

libreblw · May 5, 2019 at 7:02 PM

Its formatted as NTFS. The drive is externally powered. Checkdisk on windows shows no errors.

**Iridium** · May 6, 2019 at 10:25 AM Official Post

Quote from libreblw

Its formatted as NTFS. The drive is externally powered. Checkdisk on windows shows no errors.

Yes but this is Linux not Windows

libreblw · May 6, 2019 at 8:07 PM

Update: I changed the volume name of the drive and now its working again as intended. Thanks for the relpys

**Da Flex** · May 6, 2019 at 9:32 PM Official Post

Quote from libreblw

Update: I changed the volume name of the drive and now its working again as intended. Thanks for the relpys

What volume name do you use now? Knowing the name conventions could help other people.

External drive mounted as read only

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