External HD no longer mounting after adding init.d script

[rpi25]

I was messing around trying to learn how init.d scripts work. I took a process that was working well when I had it in cron scheduler as @ reboot and tried to make it an init.d script. Pulling from an example I found for initializing a vnc server on boot (http://elinux.org/RPi_VNC_Server#Run_at_boot), I wrote my own init.d script:

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sudo nano /etc/init.d/btsyncboot

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#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: btsyncboot
# Required-Start: $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start btsync at boot time
# Description: Start btsync at boot time.
### END INIT INFO

USER=root
HOME=/root

export USER HOME

case "$1" in
 start)
   echo "Starting btsync"
   /home/pi/.btsync/btsync --config /home/pi/.btsync/sync.conf
   ;;

 stop)
   echo "Stopping btsync"
   /home/pi/.btsync/btsync -kill
   ;;

 *)
   echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/btsyncboot {start|stop}"
   exit 1
   ;;
esac

exit 0

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sudo chmod 755 btsyncboot

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sudo update-rc.d btsyncboot defaults

So I rebooted my pi, it started btsync and I could load the web GUI so looked like things were working. Then I noticed all the folders said they could not be accessed. Thought that was weird so I tried changing to my external hard drive

cd /media/external

and got this error message

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-bash: cd: external/: Permission denied

If I look in the /media folder I still see it listed, but I cannot access it, even using sudo

So I'm not sure what happened, but I'm assuming it has something to do with me messing around in the init.d scripts.

Can anyone point out where I went wrong, and how to fix it?

Thanks!

[rpi25]

I tried to get a temporary fix by undoing what I had done

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sudo update-rc.d -f btsyncboot remove

and by renaming the script in the init.d folder, but now on reboot I still get the same problem where I cannot access my external hard drive (though now at least btsync is no longer autostarting)