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My apologies for the delay in replying - life got in the way of my
interests.
Ian Rawlings <news06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2008-07-26, zed <zed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I can mount (2) by going in to Computer and clicking on Mount but I
> > cannot write to the drive.
>
> What user are you trying to write to the drive as? Chances are the
> drive's directory will be mounted as root, so if you are not trying to log
> in as root then you won't be able to write to it. to fix this, run a
> terminal and cd to the drive's directory, then use "sudo chown <your user>
> ." and you should be able to write to it. I don't know ubuntu though and
> know it has some limits about root access, so running the command as root
> might be slightly different but you get the idea.
There is only one user - zed.
The drive owner was /root as you suggested. So I logged in as /root and
then created three directories: Backups, Music, Pictures, as it is my
intention as <zed> to use this drive to do Backups and keep my Music and
Pictures on it.
I then looked at Chown in the book "A Practical Guide to Linux - Commands,
Editors, and Shell Programming" - most of which is beyond me :-( and typed
the following into a terminal:
zed-desktop disk # chown /media/disk/zed
chown: missing operand after `/media/disk/zed'
Try `chown --help' for more information.
zed-desktop disk # chown --recursive zed: /Backups/zed/
chown: cannot access `/Backups/zed/': No such file or directory
zed-desktop disk # cd /media/disk/Backups
zed-desktop Backups # chown --recursive zed: /backups
chown: cannot access `/backups': No such file or directory
zed-desktop Backups # chown --recursive zed: /Backups
chown: cannot access `/Backups': No such file or directory
zed-desktop Backups #
Obviously I'm not understanding the correct sequence of commands. So any
help would be appreciated.
[snip]
>
> > Questions>
> >
> > (a) What do I do to have the drive mount at boot?
>
> Add it to your fstab, however if it's USB then it may well not get mounted
> automatically as I know on my system, USB discs are not available until
> after all the filesystems have mounted, so you will either have to run
> mount -a as root, or add the mount commands to a script that runs well
> after the system startup has happened.
>
I'll leave this portion until I've changed the ownership :-)
--
zed
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