Permission denied on mounted devices
After hours searching, there seems to be different causes for this issue and different solutions for each one.
I'm not an expert to provide a comprehensive answer so I hint to some frequent situations on the topic:
Ownership/permission issues for mounted devices on mount points:
File permissions won't change
USB drive auto-mounted by user but gets write permissions for root onlyDamaged file-system that for security reasons mounts the device as read-only:
Permission Denied on External Hard DriveHibernated windows that doesn't permit a write access to windows partitions on dual-boot systems:
Unable to mount Windows (NTFS) filesystem due to hibernation- And the one that led me to answer is the type of mounting based on the file-system:
Why can't I write on External Hard disk?
My problem was the missing NTFS driver package ntfs-3g
that caused the system use the Linux kernel NTFS driver ntfs
. As mentioned in Debian Wiki NTFS page, ntfs
, Linux kernel NTFS driver, provides read-only access, and ntfs-3g
, Userspace NTFS driver via FUSE, provides read and write access.
# apt-get install ntfs-3g
and a system reboot solved the problem for me.