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Asked: 2012-11-05 07:03:13 +0800 CST

Cannot Mount external harddrive

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Trying to plug it in, and here is the error: Unable to mount My Passport Error creating mount point `/media/jianyue/My Passport': Read-only file system

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  1. Best Answer

    Check to make sure that '/media/jianyue' exists. I assume that jianyue is your username. Ubuntu seems to have a bug in that they now want to mount these removable drives in /media/'username' but it does not automatically create it...

    So, I think this should work for anyone for their own user account:

    $ sudo mkdir /media/$USER
$ sudo chown $USER.$USER /media/$USER

    You would need to have administration privileges to be able to do execute these commands. You should end up with the directory /media/jianyue created and owned by jianyue.

    Good Luck!

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