[QCLUG] I'm Getting Back On The Horse

[Mark Riedesel]

Ah excellent!

Yah, no need to use umask option for mounting ext3 since ext3
understands how to deal with traditional Unix file permissions.

Your fstab entries look sufficient, and if you can write to them as
root then everything is fine, you just need to change ownership of the
drives to your regular user, like this:

sudo chown -R bob /media/DataDisk

Where "bob" is the user you're changing ownership to, and
"/media/DataDisk" is what you're changing the permissions of. chown is
"change owner", the -R means recursive (it follows the filesystem tree
down through all the sub-branches). Then your user should be able to
write to the disks.

Also, it's optional but it might be a little more reliable to change
"/dev/disk/by-uuid/05e69fc8-b92e-44ee-9c66-63df5353d991" to
"UUID=05e69fc8-b92e-44ee-9c66-63df5353d991", but that may just being
nit picky. If you're interested in learning more about what the
options (like "users","auto","rw") in fstab do, check out the manpage
for mount (eg. man mount), option listings start somewhere around line
215.

You're not being a bother at all, asking questions is one of the
reasons the mailing list exists, glad to hear you're giving it another
shot :)

Mark


On Feb 19, 2008 4:08 PM, Robert Jones <robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
> The Tiger is dead and the Penguin is back on line  :-) .
>
> Hi Mark, first let me thank you for the information on "kdesudo".  I'll
> give that a try very shortly.  I have my three data drives (2 internal
> and 1 USB) formatted to ext3 and managed to get them setup and running
> fine.  However, the "umask=000" gives an error so I can't use that.  I
> have done a lot of reading and came up with the following.
>
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/abade572-4015-4173-832b-444c976a03fe /media/DataDisk
> ext3 auto,users,rw 0 0
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/677d712f-864d-4b68-8197-602e3b898018 /media/BackupDisk
> ext3 auto,users,rw 0 0
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/05e69fc8-b92e-44ee-9c66-63df5353d991
> /media/SeagateDisk ext3 auto,users,rw 0 0
>
> The problem is it is still running as root so I can't write to it.  I
> thought the "users,rw" would take care of that but it didn't.  I have
> restarted the computer and it didn't give any errors on loading
> Kubuntu.  Do you, or anyone else, have any suggestions on what I need to
> do to make it so I can write to it.  I know that it is writable because
> I actually learned enough to go into a terminal, change to the
> directory, and tried to write with no luck.  However when I tried using
> the same command but as sudo it wrote just fine.
>
> Sorry about being a bother but I have tried a number of things that I
> read and I just don't seem to get it.  I guess I'm just a little to new
> at this yet, but I'll get better.  I promise.
>
> Thanks for the help
> Bob Jones
>
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