Locked HDD / can't save files on it on Linux

[mehmetkay-sudo]

Hi,

i want to record my screen on OBS-Studio and save the video files on an external HDD.
My OS tells me, that the HDD is locked and nothing can be saved on it.

Is there any command to unlock the HDD with chmod or something similiar, so i can save files on the HDD again?

The path to my HDD would be something like run/media/[HDD]...

Thanks for the help in advance.

I can attach screenshots, if needed.

Bests,
mehmetkay-sudo

 

[GatorsFan]

Welcome to the forum first off

What you need to do first is run from the terminal with the drive plugged in

ls -la /media

This will tell you who actually owns the drive whether it is you or root

My guess it is root then what you can do is change the owner of the partition with the command:

sudo chown -R user:user /partition (where user is your_username),

and optionally change the permissions of the partition, at least to save your data. After that I would reformat the disk, repartition, give it an appropriate label, then put your data back onto it

 

[mehmetkay-sudo]

Thanks! Nice to be here.

Thank you very much for your support. I will try it out.

Bests,
MKS

 

[mehmetkay-sudo]

When i use the command:

sudo chown -R mehmetkay-sudo:mehmetkay-sudo /partition (where user is your_username)

with the right partition path, the terminal says chown: invalid group in german.

The owner of the partition is not root. It is my username.

 

[GatorsFan]

Are you in the sudoers group

su root

then

sudo usermod -aG sudo username

reboot

 

[Trenix25]

tune2fs can be used to force the kernel to mount a Linux file system read-only. Use the mount command to see if this has happened.

Signed,

Matthew Campbell