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  1. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    When I don't understand something, I try to research as much as possible. Here's an interesting web page which shows "hard drive size" vs. "actual capacity". Seems I have a 2 TB HD as advertised, with an actual capacity of 1.862 TB. If I understand right, it's because there's 1,024 as the...
  2. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Not TOO frustrated. I like these type of projects. I just don't like when I'm not really in control of what/when I can continue. :D Plugged the drive back into Windows. It didn't register there either. Formatted NTFS. Says 1.862 GB. Included web page view of what it shows. Won't web...
  3. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Um... Really not good. The NTFS drive unmounted just fine. The exFAT one shows up as "Storage Unmounted". Powered the drive off/on. Nothing. Rebooted the router. Same. Tried to use the web page to unmount/remount. Nothing. Invisible. *sigh* I woke up this early for THIS? :D Waiting...
  4. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    I see various articles on how to make FAT32 work, but decided to go exFAT instead of use a third party alternative. Posting the end results of the Windows quick format. Now going to take down the NTFS drive and replace it with this one. My turn to be up at 4 AM. Excited to finish this...
  5. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Ironically, it looks intimidating becuase I literally don't know what to do for step one. To quote the link, step 1 says: Format disk with FAT32 filesystem before beginning to ensure it is clean and detectable by ASUSWRT firmware. That says WHAT to do, but not HOW. :D I plugged my...
  6. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Since I didn't think I was formatting tonight, I put back the original NTFS drive, so my wife and I can watch TV. This is one of three identical Seagate external HD's I bought at the same time, so the specs for size should be the same for the eventual target one. Thanks for the response...
  7. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Was industrious. Found the amtm script center on my own. Loaded it successfully and put in the backup Seagate drive. (Stated capacity 2 TB) Ran 'fd' on amtm, but it says the device is over 2TB and cannot be formatted by amtm. I see the manual instructions. They look intimidating. I see a...
  8. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Whenever. Sleep well! Didn't realize you were in the UK until you posted that. (Lived in Brighton in '77, '80-'83, myself.) Thanks again! :D
  9. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Happy to admit defeat if this really is a bad uphill fight. I can always get a dedicated ext4 external HD to replace the one there. That being said, I have to keep the NTFS drive as-is for now. It's the only one with unique data on it. I can dump off a lot of it to the Orico, but I never...
  10. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    I do own all three systems, so theoretically, could create a "cavalli" account with the same ID's maybe. That's not my expertise, so don't know how hard that is, especially since the Asus has so much NOT able to be controlled as easily I think. Happy to go either route if you have the time /...
  11. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    NTFS formatted in Windows. Originally, this external drive was my backup drive. Still need to disconnect it from the Asus when backing up configurations (i.e. my parents house). I have the gist of what you wanted. Changed slightly, here's the command I used: sudo mount -t cifs //Asus/Media...
  12. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Thought about this during dinner. Had a test to prove to myself that this is all about permissions. Issued a couple of commands that proved it does NOT work with a user, but does with root: pi@PiMC:/mnt/BuyVM/zDL/transmission $ ll total 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Feb 16 19:16 test.mp4...
  13. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    The /etc/fstab file, in case it helps. Renamed to .txt only so it can be uploaded. Thanks! :D
  14. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    My Asus DOES have another write problem. The solution I was hoping to try was using the Pi to mount it with Samba instead of NFS. I believe the NFS permissions aren't working, and that if I used credentials on a Samba mounted drive, that might work. I just don't know what's wrong with my...
  15. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Almost everything is working perfectly. The configuration is almost exactly the same as before, with some minor modifications. I've changed the Asus login from cavalli1021 to cavalli successfully. I've even added an fstab entry for mounting my remote cloud machine. Unfortunately, just as my...
  16. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Right. The Pi mounted it with NFS just fine. I use the Pi (successfully) to control another 5 HD array with Samba, but that's a different story. The cavalli1021 account was created simply as a login to the router. I had no idea that it would have ramifications at the time I initialized it...
  17. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Nope. Tried vi on 3 new files. Same behavior for all. My guess is that there's some weird permission problem the way the file is created. Solution? Don't need to 'vi' on any files there. Just found the problem when trying to create a file and directory to test the original issue described...
  18. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    That's it! Yes! It works! :D Minor issue remains, but major hurdle leaped! I forgot I used NFS after my cifs mount line didn't work. The original fstab still has this entry: #//Asus/Media /mnt/Media cifs credentials=/home/pi/.smbcredentials,uid=1000,gid=1000,x-systemd.automount 0 0 I had...
  19. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Thanks for the work-around, repeater. I -can- manipulate the data on the drives via my Blitz Windows machine already with the current permission set. Took a while, but found posts here that gave me pieces that (eventually) worked. What I need is for my RPi machine to do it, because I want to...
  20. David Cavalli

    USB 3.0 HD write permissions

    Tried to generate results from PiMC using ls, but it kept blocking my posts. Only when I edited that out did it let me post the prior page. To manually describe it, I have "drwx" permissions for all with root/root as the ownership.
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