[SOLVED] change partition permission?

[adredz]

Re: change partition permission?

i made a mistake, here's the correct one:

adredz@adredz-desktop:/$ cat /etc/fstab && cat /etc/mtab && blkid
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=63cd03bb-f4d5-41cb-9e08-d77a859e1699 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=60E457AFE45785E6 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults 0 2
# /dev/sda5
UUID=86fd2048-4f1b-42b5-b5bf-78eacd3a346b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0/dev/sda2 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
/dev/sda1: UUID="60E457AFE45785E6" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="63cd03bb-f4d5-41cb-9e08-d77a859e1699" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: TYPE="swap" UUID="86fd2048-4f1b-42b5-b5bf-78eacd3a346b"

[Snowhog]

Re: change partition permission?

Okay. Better. One last thing to look at. In the console, type:

ls -l /media

Copy/paste the output.

[adredz]

Re: change partition permission?

adredz@adredz-desktop:/$ ls -l /media
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-02-21 02:20 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-21 02:20 cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2008-02-21 02:20 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-02-21 02:20 floppy0

[Snowhog]

Re: change partition permission?

Okay. In the console type:

sudo mkdir /media/sda1

Close the console and perform a normal shutdown/restart. Report back.

[adredz]

Re: change partition permission?

wow! problem solved!

Thank you so much Snowhog! i really appreciate your help. thanks for sharing your precious time.

adredz

[adredz]

Re: change partition permission?

one last thing...can i change its permission so that only i as a root can access it?

[Snowhog]

Re: change partition permission?

I'm very happy that you've got access to the partition.

Root (the user with 'root' permissions) will always be able to access the partition. If you wanted access to it to be limited to only yourself and root only, then you can modify the fstab line entry to this:

UUID=60E457AFE45785E6 /media/sda1 ntfs owner,rw,auto 0 2

This, according to the owner option for fstab, limits access to the partition owner (you) and root only.

Happy to have been of assistance.

[adredz]

Re: change partition permission?

Thank you!

[Snowhog]

Re: change partition permission?

Please verify that you can actually write to the partition. If you can't, then you will need to change the fstab entry option from ntfs to ntfs-3g

[adredz]

Re: change partition permission?

yes I can...