NEw Hard Drive Permissions for Radarr

1st Official Post

    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

    chmod: media/Movie: Read-only file system

    Can anyone help me out with the commands please

    • 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.