external hard drive permissions

Asked Nov 21 '14 at 17:59

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Dear Ubuntu Experts,

Would definitely appreciate some help. I am using Ubuntu 14.04 that is on a partition. Through the terminal I am trying to run a data processing script through an external hard drive and was given the following error:

/bin/sh: 1: RS_ICA.dr/scripts+logs/drB: Permission denied

Here is some info on drB: Program File (type = shell script (application/x-shellscript))

I did some background research and I believe my problem stems from how the external hard drive is mounted. However, I was not sure on how to go about unmounting and mounting my external while giving it new permissions. Using cat /etc/mtab I got for the external:

/dev/sdg1 /media/ryanbell/453Data fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096 0 0

Could someone please tell me if they think the problem is the permissions (possibly cause it is default_permissions?), and then how I might go about unmounting and mounting the external hard drive with new permissions? Thank you in advance!

edited Nov 21 '14 at 18:03

muru

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asked Nov 21 '14 at 17:59

Ryan

are you sure the script is executable? – Jacob Vlijm Nov 21 '14 at 18:07
@JacobVlijm the mount type is fuseblk. Almost certainly NTFS. – muru Nov 21 '14 at 18:11
@muru ah, I overread the fact that the script was on the external drive... – Jacob Vlijm Nov 21 '14 at 18:19
Try doing 'test -x ' as root. If it returns positive, its a permission issue. If not, it's something else. Also try 'test -r ' and 'test -w for read/write respectfully, also as root. – aroll605 Nov 21 '14 at 21:26

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