[SOLVED| adding hard drive

[emer_son]

Hello Everyone
I just installed Kubuntu 8.04 in a dual boot with windows 2000. I have a sata drive (250 GB , sdb1) and a pata drive (300 GB). I installed the pata drive(/dev/sda1) and then partitioned it and formatted it with GParted while running Kubuntu. I added the following line to fstab
/dev/sda1 /media/data vfat defaults, 0 0
Also I ran the command "chmod 777 /media/data" the mount point for the drive to enable write privileges.
My problem is I can't write to the drive and although I altered fstab the drive(sda1) didn't show when I looked in the storage media folder. Strange is that w2k can read and write to the drive.
Anyone have a clue what is the problem or what i did wrong?

Thanks

[emer_son]

Re: adding hard drive

forgot to mention the pata drive(sda1) is formatted as fat 32

[toad]

Re: adding hard drive

Hi,

could you let us have a copy of your fstab, the output of

sudo blkid

and for the sake of completeness also

df -h

Thanks

[emer_son]

Re: adding hard drive

dan@dan:~$ sudo blkid
[sudo] password for dan:
/dev/sda1: UUID="484D-3AB3" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="060570C25C6E83A9" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sdb5: UUID="c4fddcdd-a908-42af-ad54-af0cbcf3769f" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sdb6: TYPE="swap" UUID="94134d11-8228-4db5-bed6-136f9f80d239"
/dev/sdc1: LABEL="TRAVELDRIVE" UUID="D010-8529" TYPE="vfat"
dan@dan:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb5 187G 6.2G 171G 4% /
varrun 1014M 156K 1014M 1% /var/run
varlock 1014M 0 1014M 0% /var/lock
udev 1014M 64K 1014M 1% /dev
devshm 1014M 0 1014M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 1014M 38M 977M 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic/volatile
/dev/sda1 280G 5.6G 274G 2% /media/data

[Detonate]

Re: adding hard drive

Try changing the line,

/dev/sda1 /media/data vfat defaults, 0 0

to

/dev/sda1 /media/data vfat user,rw, 0 0

and see if that works.

[emer_son]

Re: adding hard drive

I altered fstab and the drive mounts fine, however i still can't write to the drive.

[toad]

Re: adding hard drive

and the fstab please...

[emer_son]

Re: adding hard drive

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=c4fddcdd-a908-42af-ad54-af0cbcf3769f / ext3 nouser,relatime,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=94134d11-8228-4db5-bed6-136f9f80d239 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,utf8,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,utf8,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/data vfat user,rw, 0 0

[toad]

Re: adding hard drive

Thanks!

Just so that we have some info.

Could you now have a look at/post the output of

ls -la

from the within the /media directory so we can have a look at the rights.

[emer_son]

Re: adding hard drive

total 2580
drwxr-xr-x 29 dan dan 36864 2008-06-12 08:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-06-07 22:14 ..
drwx------ 3 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 14:28 .adobe
-rw------- 1 dan dan 1322 2008-06-12 07:48 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 220 2008-06-07 22:14 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 2928 2008-06-07 22:14 .bashrc
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dan dan 2364774 2008-06-08 00:38 bookmarks.html
drwxr-xr-x 3 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 11:35 .config
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan adm 50 2008-06-12 07:50 .DCOPserver_dan__0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 dan adm 28 2008-06-12 07:50 .DCOPserver_dan_:0 -> /home/dan/.DCOPserver_dan__0
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-12 06:26 Desktop
-rw------- 1 dan dan 26 2008-06-08 10:52 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-11 07:25 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-09 08:02 .fontconfig
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-09 08:02 .fonts
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 514 2008-06-08 16:20 .fonts.conf
drwx------ 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-12 07:52 .gconf
drwx------ 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-12 07:52 .gconfd
-rw-r----- 1 dan dan 0 2008-06-09 10:11 .gksu.lock
drwx------ 3 dan adm 4096 2008-06-12 07:41 .gnome2
drwx------ 2 dan adm 4096 2008-06-12 07:41 .gnome2_private
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 25507 2008-06-08 11:28 .gtk_qt_engine_rc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 285 2008-06-08 10:52 .gtkrc-2.0-kde
-rw------- 1 dan adm 183 2008-06-12 07:50 .ICEauthority
drwx------ 5 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 10:52 .kde
drwx------ 3 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 10:52 .local
drwx------ 3 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 14:28 .macromedia
drwxr-xr-x 3 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 10:52 .mcop
-rw------- 1 dan dan 31 2008-06-08 11:43 .mcoprc
drwx------ 4 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 14:53 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 20480 2008-06-12 10:34 Music
drwxr-xr-x 4 dan dan 4096 2008-06-12 10:34 .pan2
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 10:52 Pictures
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 586 2008-06-07 22:14 .profile
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 10:52 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 15:37 .pulse
-rw------- 1 dan dan 256 2008-06-08 15:37 .pulse-cookie
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-12 07:50 .qt
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 218 2008-06-11 18:27 .recently-used.xbel
drwx------ 4 dan dan 4096 2008-06-12 07:50 .strigi
-rw-r--r-- 1 dan dan 0 2008-06-08 10:53 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 10:52 Templates
drwx------ 4 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 11:30 .thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 10:52 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 3 dan dan 4096 2008-06-08 16:00 .vlc
-rw------- 1 dan adm 158 2008-06-12 07:50 .Xauthority
drwxr-xr-x 2 dan dan 4096 2008-06-10 17:33 .xine
-rw------- 1 dan dan 20305 2008-06-12 13:09 .xsession-errors

[toad]

Re: adding hard drive

Cheers, but that is the wrong directory

It looks very much like you home directory, I was after your /media directory...

[emer_son]

Re: adding hard drive

sorry my mistake

total 76
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2008-06-12 08:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-06-08 11:10 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-06-07 21:56 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-07 21:56 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 49152 1969-12-31 19:00 data
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 45 2008-06-07 21:57 .directory -> /etc/kubuntu-default-settings/directory-media
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 2008-06-11 13:16 disk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2008-06-07 21:56 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-07 21:56 floppy0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 2008-06-12 08:16 .hal-mtab
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-12 08:16 .hal-mtab-lock
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 42 2008-06-07 21:57 .hidden -> /etc/kubuntu

[toad]

Re: adding hard drive

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 49152 1969-12-31 19:00 data

That is the line we are interested in.

The first letter d denotes that it is a directory. The next three letters rwx are for the owner. In this case the owner has read, write and executable rights. The next three letters, r-x are for the group. Group members have read and executable rights but cannot write to media. The last three letters are for others.

The root root bit shows us that root is the owner and the group.

So there!

You want to change the owner to dan and the group to users. To do so type

sudo chown dan /media/data

and to change the group do

sudo chgrp users /media/dan

Everything should work as prescribed now. If you also want other users to have write access to that drive you need to give them permission:

sudo chmod +w users /media/data

Please post back and report.

[emer_son]

Re: adding hard drive

there seems to be a problem

dan@dan:/media$ sudo chown dan /media/data
[sudo] password for dan:
chown: changing ownership of `/media/data': Operation not permitted
dan@dan:/media$ sudo chgrp users /media/dan
chgrp: cannot access `/media/dan': No such file or directory
dan@dan:/media$ cd /
dan@dan:/$ sudo chown dan /media/data
chown: changing ownership of `/media/data': Operation not permitted

[toad]

Re: adding hard drive

Hm, not sure why that should be. Perhaps somebody else can enlighten us?

In the meantime try and remove it doing a

sudo rm -r /media/data

Now recreate it with

sudo mkdir /media/data

Now try changing the permissions again.