

- #MOUNT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY DRIVER#
- #MOUNT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY MAC#
- #MOUNT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY WINDOWS#
May 17 19:37:52 raspberrypi kernel: NTFS-fs error (device sda1): load_system_files(): Volume is dirty. May 17 19:37:52 raspberrypi kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1. Right-click the empty drive you want to mount as a folder and select the New Simple Volume option. External Hard drive - read only I feel the problem has been caused 'cos the USB cable seems to be cutting out power to it at times when I accidentally touch the cable.
#MOUNT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY DRIVER#
From /var/log/syslog: May 17 19:37:52 raspberrypi kernel: NTFS driver 2.1.30. Now, do all of your access through the UNC file share, e.g. Thats why the message next to the box says 'Only applies to files in folder'.
#MOUNT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY WINDOWS#
Alter the permissions for the share to remove 'write' permission. Windows does not pay attention to the Read only attribute on folders - you cant make a folder read only but you can make the contents of the folder read only.

#MOUNT EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE READ ONLY MAC#
Right click on the drive, and turn on file sharing. If you face an error on your Mac about ‘External Hard Drive Read Only’ and are not able to copy additional files, then here are steps to resolve this issue. If you manually mount the drive from the terminal you can set it to read only. Update: Just to be clear, that command used to work, and it's read-only for EVERYONE, even root: $ ls -l /mediaĭr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Apr 28 11:11 My Book There is a way to access the drive in a mode that is effectively read only.

All hard drives fail, typically after five or more years but sometimes after a few months. One of the Disks Window showing a thumb drive mounted as: Read-only. Showing the Set Mode sub-menu for: Mount read-only. The drive has its own power supply and it works fine with my laptop, so I think the problem must be with the Pi. Sometimes taking out the hard drive and putting it into a new enclosure is the only way. The Disk Arbitrator icon is the one on the far left and is showing in red for when it's set as read-only. I've been mounting it with sudo mount -t ntfs -o umask=000 /dev/sda1 "/media/My Book" but for some reason it now says mount: warning: /media/My Book/ seems to be mounted read-only when I do so, and ls -l shows it's correct.
