Cannot copy files from external USB HDD to computer

Posted by Thomas Versteeg on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Thomas Versteeg
Published on 2012-11-01T18:50:49Z Indexed on 2012/11/01 23:06 UTC
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Hello I have a HDD disk connected with a USB converter to my computer. It consists of two partitions, the first one is mounted automatically and I can grab all the files from it, but the second one I have to mount manually as a root in the command line, if I try to open it with nautilus it gives an error.

The drive where the problem is is drive sdb1, sdb2 has the same settings but works fine. I am using Debian Wheezy.

This is the fstab:

/dev/sdb1       /media/usb0     auto defaults,gid=disk,umask=0777 0 0
/dev/sdb2       /media/usb1     auto defaults,gid=disk,umask=0777 0 0

And when I try to copy the files with this command (as root) cp -vr /media/usb0/* /home/user/Videos/ I get these types of errors:

cp: reading `/media/usb0/.lang/file.ext': Permission denied
cp: failed to extend `/home/user/Videos/.lang/file.ext': Permission denied

How can I at least copy the files to my main HDD? I don't need to adjust them I only need to copy them!

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