Can't write anything on a partition formatted to ext4

[watdahel]

I'm using Ubuntu with ext3 file system. Using gparted I formatted a separate partition to ext4 to use as a storage space. I realize I can't write anything on the ext4 partition. How do I fix this?

 

[sonoma1993]

can't you use gparted again to format that ext4 partition to ext3?

 

[Crusty]

What's the output of the mount command?

 

[watdahel]

I formatted to ext3 with the same results: unable to read or write on the partition. Eventually I found this http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux and the last two instructions appear to have fixed my problem. I mounted the partition to a folder and sudo chown -R and sudo chmod -R 755 the folder. I don't understand why formatting the partition didn't enable read and write by default. Could it be because the partition used to be part of NTFS partition?

 

[Nothinman]

Creating a filesystem includes a default set of permissions which is almost always writable only by root.

 

[lvudesign]

Hy there!
I solved this problem by loging in as root user and setting permissions for the partition folder to allow read and write.

 

[Exodist]

Anytime you run into little quirks like that just type dmesg in terminal and read through it for any mounting errors and such. Its the first place to go for diagnosing issues.