# Permission denied on mounted drive - systemd issue?
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 4, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456 "2020-02-04T16:34:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Gaute](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Gaute)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/1 "2020-02-04T16:34:12Z")
Syncthing works wonderfully to sync my photos etc. from my phone. š
Now I wanted to sync some files to a mounted HD to save space on the OS SSD. (Ubuntu 18.04)
I create a folder in the web gui ā/media/gaute/snurre/fooā where āsnurreā is the mounted drive, but I get a āpermission deniedā notice on start.
ps aux shows:
> gaute 29448 0.6 0.8 191848 63864 ? Ssl 16:17 0:20 /snap/syncthing/448/syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logflags=0 -home=/home/gaute/snap/syncthing/common/syncthing/
And `mkdir /media/gaute/snurre/foo` works perfectly.
I believe the contents of syncthing.service are the defaults from the snap.
The mount was created with the Ubuntu Disks application and looks like this.
> /dev/sdb on /media/gaute/snurre type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,data=ordered,x-gvfs-show)`
Iām starting to think this has to be some sort of systemd fuckery.
Any ideas are appreciated!
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/2 "2020-02-04T16:42:19Z")
One can never rule out systemd fuckery. Does it work if you stop the systemd service and start Syncthing manually?
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### Author:  [@Gaute](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Gaute)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/3 "2020-02-04T16:51:06Z")
That was quick š
Didnāt think to try that, but nope:
> WARNING: Failed to create folder root directory mkdir /media/gaute/snurre/bar: permission denied
Nice to have the log like that though.
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### Author:  [@Gaute](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Gaute)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/6 "2020-02-04T17:04:31Z")
Maybe this could be relevant?
```
/media/:
drwxr-xā+ 3 root root 4096 feb. 4 12:17 gaute/
/media/gaute/:
drwx------ 8 gaute gaute 4096 feb. 4 17:23 snurre/
```
I tried `chmod g+rwx /media/gaute/snurre` just in case, but no luck. mkdir works after allā¦
The service file should not be relevant when it fails on manual start.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/7 "2020-02-04T17:07:15Z")
If syncthing canāt create that dir when started from a shell I would expect you to also not be able to mkdir it from the same shell? Otherwise I donāt know whatās going on.
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### Author:  [@Gaute](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Gaute)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/8 "2020-02-04T17:19:59Z")
Exactly!
That should take systemd completely out of it.
I just rsynced my entire Photos folder over from this shell without issue in fact.
I did not mount the hdd the ātraditional wayā, I used the gui, thatās the only thing I can think of.
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 7:22pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/9 "2020-02-04T19:22:37Z")
snap fuckery? try running the Linux binary from GitHub to check
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### Author:  [@Gaute](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Gaute)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/10 "2020-02-04T19:59:36Z")
snap fuckery indeed!
Pulled the binary out of syncthing-linux-amd64-v1.3.4.tar.gz
Ran:
> ~/tmp$ ./syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logflags=0 -home=/home/gaute/snap/syncthing/common/syncthing/
And it just works š
stick to .deb is the moral I guess.
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/11 "2020-02-04T20:16:31Z")
Oh, snap! Missed that detail; those are indeed heavily sandboxed.
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### Author:  [@Gaute](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Gaute)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/12 "2020-02-04T20:55:05Z")
š
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/permission-denied-on-mounted-drive-systemd-issue/14456/13 "2020-03-05T20:55:08Z")
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