Permissions Help

[arthurracoon]

I mounted two hard drives into kubuntu. One was an external USB Hard Drive and the other was an internal partition. Both are FAT32 file systems.

I can read from these, but I cant write to them.

I tried using chmod on them

ex:

chmod u+w .

after I moved to the directory, but it didnt work.

How do I allow myself to write to these folders/mounts?

thanks

[arthurracoon]

Re: Permissions Help

heres a detailed look:

They are mounted in the media folder:

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2006-02-04 09:51 media

Inside the media folder are the hda5 and IOMEGA_HDD mounts for the hard drives.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2006-01-26 17:11 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-01-26 17:11 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 1969-12-31 17:00 hda5
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 32768 1969-12-31 17:00 IOMEGA_HDD

[arthurracoon]

Re: Permissions Help

ravi@ravi:/media$ ls
cdrom cdrom0 hda5 IOMEGA_HDD
ravi@ravi:/media$ chmod u+w /hda5
chmod: changing permissions of `/hda5': Operation not permitted
ravi@ravi:/media$ ls
cdrom cdrom0 hda5 IOMEGA_HDD
ravi@ravi:/media$ chmod g+w /hda5
chmod: changing permissions of `/hda5': Operation not permitted
ravi@ravi:/media$ ls
cdrom cdrom0 hda5 IOMEGA_HDD
ravi@ravi:/media$ ls -l
total 44
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2006-01-26 17:11 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-01-26 17:11 cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 8192 1969-12-31 17:00 hda5
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 32768 1969-12-31 17:00 IOMEGA_HDD
ravi@ravi:/media$

[aysiu]

Re: Permissions Help

You can't chmod stuff on FAT partitions--FAT doesn't support permissions.
It's all in how it's mounted. What does you /etc/fstab look like?

[arthurracoon]

Re: Permissions Help

You can't chmod stuff on FAT partitions--FAT doesn't support permissions.
It's all in how it's mounted. What does you /etc/fstab look like?

how do I find this?

[aysiu]

Re: Permissions Help

Open up a Konsole (Alt-F2 and konsole) and then type

cat /etc/fstab

and copy and paste in this thread whatever comes out.

[arthurracoon]

Re: Permissions Help

ravi@ravi:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,nouser 0 1
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/IOMEGA_HDD vfat ,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 0 0
/dev/hda5 /media/hda5 vfat ,uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 1 0
ravi@ravi:~$

[aysiu]

Re: Permissions Help

Do this:

sudo umount /media/IOMEGA_HDD
sudo umount /media/hda5
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
sudo kwrite /etc/fstab

Paste the following over your entire current fstab--that is, what I'm about to put below should be the only stuff in your /etc/fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>  <type> <options>    <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid,nouser 0 1
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc    /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 user,noauto   0    0
/dev/sda1 /media/IOMEGA_HDD vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /media/hda5 vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0

Save the file and quite KWrite. Then, finally,

sudo mount -a

[arthurracoon]

Re: Permissions Help

thanks, it worked!

is there some link where i can read about this type of stuff?

[Rog131]

Re: Permissions Help

More stuff:

Unofficial Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) Starter Guide:
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu

Tuxfiles (linuxhelp):
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/

KUDOS Unofficial Kubuntu FAQ:
http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kf1.html