[Solved] Unable to write to an external hard drive

Hi Everybody,
I installed the Nov iso and plugged in my external hard drive. The mount command says:
/dev/sr0 on /run/media/ly/WD SmartWare type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=77,iocharset=utf8,uhelper=udisks2)
/dev/sdb1 on /run/media/ly/My Book type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0177,dmask=077,nls=utf8,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1,uhelper=udisks2)
I and even root were unable to create a file / directory on /run/media/ly/My Book. Does anybody know how to fix?
Thank you.
PS: Before I installed the Nov iso, I was able to read / write from that My Book.
Thank all of you. You all are great. The reason I mentioned the Nov iso is that since I re-installed my machine with the Nov iso, a lot of things don't work as before. I don't blame the Nov iso, I just wanted to list all the things I did to my machine so that you see the whole picture.
A lot of things which don't work as before include:
- gnome seems to ignore the metacity directory in a gtk theme (I use gnome-tweak-tool to install a new theme, I can see changes everywhere but not at the window title bars, but when I copy the metacity files of the new theme into the metacity directory of the default theme which is Adwaita, I can see the changes)
- it's very un-intuitive (is it a word?) to change the wallpaper: until now I still don't know how to use my own wallpaper
- nautilus seems to hide the preferences: I cannot find it to change some things like single click to open a directory, show hidden files, add the Delete item to the menu ...
Last edited by dxxvi (2012-11-16 08:15:16)

WonderWoofy wrote:Are you escaping you spaces?
Yes.
sudo vim /run/media/ly/My\ Book/test.txt

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