I have an external SSD which was automatically mounted to /media/user/longstring. The first thing I did reformat it to ext4. After a reboot, longstring hasn't changed but everything I put on the SSD is gone and I can't cd into it or ls without sudo.
I have an external SSD which was automatically mounted to /media/user/longstring. The first thing I did reformat it to ext4. After a reboot, longstring hasn't changed but everything I put on the SSD is gone and I can't cd into it or ls without sudo.
6 Comments
Blaster_M@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
1: Did you throw data into it before or after the format?
2: Permissions issue. You need to add permissions for yourself to access that mount point, whether it's setting those perms in /etc/fstab, chown/chmod the dir and below, or facl
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
1: after 2: I had already done that, the permissions got reset after reboot
I ended up solving the problem by remounting it from /media/ to /mnt/
I still have no idea what caused the problem originally though.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
I didn't have any important data on it so I don't need to worry about data recovery
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
it should show up with all other mounted file systems when you just ener "mount" into a terminal. can you copypaste or screenshot that for us. maybe it helps seeing the options
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
I ended up solving the problem by remounting it from /media/ to /mnt/
I still have no idea what caused the problem originally though.
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
maybe some overlay got mounted on top.