Enabling write access to external HDD (in: /media/SYSTEM)?

[TheOldPresbyope]

Holy crap, 3 hours of fsck and still going!!

It  will run as long as is needed to repair and check the filesystem.

Here's a report I came across about the use of this tool on a 1TB HD using an unspecified Linux Mint computer

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/resc...linux.html


Notable quote:

With my disk, the inspection ran for about 9 hours. There were only about 1,700 files and folders on the disk, still, it took quite a while. However, the disk did not stall or shout or sputter during the check.

Courage!

Regards,
Kent