NEw Hard Drive Permissions for Radarr

Mince · August 24, 2021 at 7:05 AM

I got a new hard drive.
I formatted via windows NTFS.

I tried importing my movies into radarr but it keeps on giving me.

Unable to add root folder

Folder is not writable by user root

I now i have a permissions issue and i need to sort it out but im struggling with the commands

LibreELEC:/ # chmod -R 775 media/Movie

chmod: media/Movie: Read-only file system

Can anyone help me out with the commands please

**chewitt** · August 24, 2021 at 12:27 PM Official Post

If an NTFS drive is flagged as read-only the drive is probably seen as "dirty" e.g. it wasn't cleanly unmounted from Windows, so you'll need to either fsck the drive in Linux or remount to Windows and fix there first before Linux will mount it read-write. NB: NTFS does not support Unix filesystem permissions. This means all files will have 777 permissions which should also ensure any user (inc. root) can write to the drive.

Mince · August 24, 2021 at 3:05 PM

Thx for the reply

How would i fix it in windows Chewitt?

**chewitt** · August 25, 2021 at 1:16 AM Official Post

Run chkdsk.exe and then unmount cleanly before detaching the drive.

Mince · August 25, 2021 at 6:49 AM

awesome thx Chewitt

NEw Hard Drive Permissions for Radarr

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