Write permissions for external HDD

[lazydays]

Hi guys,

I'm very new to the Pi.

I have a Pi 3 running Raspbian Jessie.
I can see the drive at /media/pi/[my drive name] but I can't create a folder and I've tried to chown to 775 and 777. Neither worked.

I'm logged into terminal as pi.

Any help you can offer would be gratefully received.

[DougieLawson]

What's the filesystem on the external HD?

If it's FAT, FAT32, exFAT or NTFS then the security stops at the mount command. Mount it with -o uid=pi,gid=pi,umask=0022

[lazydays]

Hiya and thanks for replying

Sorry - HDD is NTFS.

I added this to /etc/fstab - presume that is correct?

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/dev/sda2  /mnt  -o  uid=pi,gid=pi,umask-0022  0  2

I haven't formatted the HDD - just plug and play. It shows up with sda1 partitioned to Windows specific and sda2 is the main partition.

When I add the code to fstab it stops the system booting. The only way to get the pi to reboot is to remove or comment out the line above.

Thanks

[DougieLawson]

You need umask=0022 not umask-0022

[lazydays]

Oops - just checked the file and I've used umask=0022
Just a typo in the post.

[lazydays]

Hi guys,

I'm still having trouble with this - everytime I change fstab it stops the pi from booting up until I remove the line.

Can anyone offer any help?

I'm using a pi3 and Raspbian Jessie.

Thanks!
Sandra

[beta-tester]

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/dev/sda2  /mnt  -o  uid=pi,gid=pi,umask-0022  0  2

I'm still having trouble with this - everytime I change fstab it stops the pi from booting up until I remove the line.

is there an other typo in your post or is it in your fstab...?
the "-o" is a syntax error for fstab it is only a command line option.
try this in your fstab

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/dev/sda2  /mnt  auto  uid=pi,gid=pi,umask=0022  0  0

EDIT: i am not entirely sure, but somewhere i read, that the default ntfs driver will mount only as readonly. to have full access to ntfs you have to install and use ntfs-3g
to install:

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sudo apt-get -y install ntfs-3g

and then your fstab entry:

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/dev/sda2  /mnt  ntfs-3g  uid=pi,gid=pi,umask=0022  0  0