Unable to write to external storage

[kevtown]

I'm using Linux Deploy 1.5.4-181 on a Android 5.1 TV box and have installed Ubuntu 15.10 with it.
I used the custom mount option to add mounts for my external sd card and usb hard drive.

Within the chrooted environment I am able to read both devices, but when I attempt to write to them (even with root) I get "permission denied".

I assumed it was the ExternalSD restriction implemented in KitKat but editting platform.xml with the "Media" line and restarting didn't correct the problem.

Here is the mount info:
/dev/fuse on /mnt/sdcard1 type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other)

[kevtown]

I did not attempt to write as root after updating android's platform.xml file. I am now able to write to both devices as root within chrooted Ubuntu. However, in spite of the fact my user account is part of the aid_sdcard_r group (which has write permission) I am unable to write to the device.

I note that the name android associates with GID 1023 is media_rw yet Linux Deploy associates it with "aid_sdcard_r" rather than "aid_sdcard_rw". Is this potentially the cause of the problem?

[scndthe2nd]

I'm having the same problem.

I'm still trying to figure out this whole environment. I've said some stupid things on here before, so I'm doing a lot of reading before putting hand to key.

I'm running Arch with xfce from a partition rather than an image file, but i was having the same problems in lubuntu.

[scndthe2nd]

I'm searching this thread for an answer. http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=378043

[kevtown]

Let me know if you find anything. Services run great if they are configured to run as root but that's obviously a bad way to do it.

[scndthe2nd]

I'm using the method from the following. It works for me in Arch.
#310

[scndthe2nd]

#221