accessing nfts secondary harddrive in qube

[car...@gmail.com]

I mounted a secondary hard drive to my qube using the "qvm-block" cmd and it shows up in the file explorer. When I double click it, nothing happens and don't have permissions to access it via the terminal. What else do I need to do to access my drive?

[Unman]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:02:27AM -0700, car...@gmail.com wrote:
> I mounted a secondary hard drive to my qube using the "qvm-block" cmd and it shows up in the file explorer. When I double click it, nothing happens and don't have permissions to access it via the terminal. What else do I need to do to access my drive?
>

This really isn't a Qubes problem, and is solvable with a quick search.
You most likely need to install ntfs-3g and associated packages - for
Debian look at wiki.debian.org/NTFS

The only Qubes specific thing here is that you will want to install the
drivers in the template on which your qube is based.

[car...@gmail.com]

I checked and ntfs-3g is installed. Fedora comes with them out of the box.

[Unman]

That's good - You say that you dont have permissions to access it.
Does this mean that you have mounted the drive? Or that the mount fails?
Have you tried mounting using sudo?

If the problem is that you have mounted the drive but cant access it,
then either su to root and do what you have to, or mount it with an
option:
mount -o umask=000 /dev/xvdXXX /mnt